Data · dataset · 2026
Higher-order turbulence Closure and Its Impact on Climate Simulations in the Community Atmosphere Model
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This paper describes climate simulations of the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), coupled with a higher-order turbulence closure known as Cloud Layers Unified by Binormals (CLUBB).
Description
CLUBB is a unified parameterization of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) and shallow convection that is centered around a trivariate probability density function (PDF) and replaces the conventional PBL, shallow convection, and cloud macrophysics schemes in CAM5.
CAMâCLUBB improves many aspects of the base state climate compared to CAM5. Chief among them is the transition of stratocumulus to trade wind cumulus regions in the subtropical oceans. In these regions, CAMâCLUBB provides a much more gradual transition that is in better agreement with observational analysis compared to CAM5, which is too abrupt.
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The improvement seen in CAMâCLUBB can be largely attributed to the gradual evolution of the simulated turbulence, which is in part a result of the unified nature of the parameterization, and to the general improved representation of shallow cumulus clouds compared to CAM5. In addition, there are large differences in the representation and structure of marine boundary layer clouds between CAMâCLUBB and CAM5. CAMâCLUBB is also shown to be more robust, in terms of boundary layer clouds, to changes in vertical resolution for global simulations in a preliminary test.
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
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- Atmospheric dynamics 75%
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