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Influence of Sub-grid-Scale Isentropic Transports on McRAS Evaluations using ARM-CART SCM DatasetsIn GCM-physics evaluations with the currently available ARM-CART SCM datasets, McRAS produced very similar character of near surface errors of simulated temperature and humidity containing typically warm and moist biases near the surface and cold and dry biases aloft. We argued it must have a common cause presumably rooted in the model physics. Lack of vertical adjustment of horizontal transport was thought to be a plausible source. Clearly, debarring such a freedom would force the incoming air to diffuse into the grid-cell which would naturally bias the surface air to become warm and moist while the upper air becomes cold and dry, a characteristic feature of McRAS biases. Since, the errors were significantly larger in the two winter cases that contain potentially more intense episodes of cold and warm advective transports, it further reaffirmed our argument and provided additional motivation to introduce the corrections. When the horizontal advective transports were suitably modified to allow rising and/or sinking following isentropic pathways of subgrid scale motions, the outcome was to cool and dry (or warm and moisten) the lower (or upper) levels. Ever, crude approximations invoking such a correction reduced the temperature and humidity biases considerably. The tests were performed on all the available ARM-CART SCM cases with consistent outcome. With the isentropic corrections implemented through two different numerical approximations, virtually similar benefits were derived further confirming the robustness of our inferences. These results suggest the need for insentropic advective transport adjustment in a GCM due to subgrid scale motions.
Document ID
20040082203
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sud, Y. C.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Walker, G. K.
(Science Applications International Corp. Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Tao, W. K.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Meeting Information
Meeting: DOE ARM Science Team Meeting
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Country: United States
Start Date: March 22, 2004
End Date: March 26, 2004
Sponsors: Department of Energy
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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