Shallow Clouds at Manus: Variability, Moistening Effect ......Shallow Clouds at Manus: Variability,...
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Shallow Clouds at Manus: Variability, Moistening Effect, and GCM Biases
Chidong Zhang, David Zermeno, and Arun Arunchandra University of Miami
Stephen Klein and His-Yen Ma LLNL
Zermeno et al. (2015); Arunchandra et al. (2015)
Shallow Clouds: Base height in the boundary layer; top height below the freezing level Scientific Questions: - What is the moistening role of shallow cumulus clouds in
the MJO? - Are shallow cumulus clouds realistically reproduced by
GCMs?
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Presumed Moistening Effects of Shallow Convection
Benedict and Randall (2007)
The Recharge-Discharge Hypothesis
Lag (day)
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Data: MMCR at Manus Issue I: Attenuation by rain Methods: Correct or remove
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Errors in Echo Top Height of Cloud Radars Detected by using AMIE/DYNAMO Cloud-
Precipitation Radar Merged Product (Feng et al. 2013)
b)
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Issue II: Estimate Moistening Tendency by Shallow Cloud Method:
P
LWC
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Time Series MJO Composites of Shallow-Cloud Fractions and Moistening at Manus
Fraction of non-precipitating shallow clouds Fraction of precipitating shallow cloud
Precipitation
time
Moistening by non-precipitating shallow clouds Moistening by precipitating shallow cloud
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Result I: Shallow cumulus clouds provide an important background moistening effect, but they alone do not explain the observed increase in the lower-troposphere moisture leading to the growth of deep convection of the MJO.
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(a) MMCR (b) CAM5
(c) Soundings (d) CAM5
Monthly Fraction of Low Clouds
Monthly Mean of Relative Humidity
Comparison of Monthly Low-Cloud Fraction and Mean Relative Humidity between Manus Observations and CAM5 Simulations
The spurious amount of low clouds near the top of the boundary layer in CAM5 is due to a lack of turbulence mixing as indicated by the erroneously high relative humidity there.
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Comparison of the Diurnal Cycle in Low-Cloud Fraction and Relative Humidity
between Manus Observations and CAM5 Simulations
Manus observation
CAM5 simulation
- Excessive humidity accumulates near the top of the boundary layer because it cannot be removed by insufficient boundary-layer turbulence and shallow cumulus scheme; - The microphysics scheme produces the spurious thin layer of low clouds.