The atmospheric boundary layer and the “gray zone” of turbulence: A critical review

R Honnert, GA Efstathiou, RJ Beare, J Ito… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent increases in computing power mean that atmospheric models for numerical weather
prediction are now able to operate at grid spacings of the order of a few hundred meters …

Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

O Boucher, J Servonnat, AL Albright… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the global climate model IPSL‐CM6A‐LR developed at Institut Pierre‐
Simon Laplace (IPSL) to study natural climate variability and climate response to natural and …

Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models, and their comparison to CMIP5 models

VK Arora, A Katavouta, RG Williams… - Biogeosciences …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Results from the fully-, biogeochemically-, and radiatively-coupled simulations in which CO
2 increases at a rate of 1% per year (1pctCO2) from its pre-industrial value are analyzed to …

Ongoing breakthroughs in convective parameterization

C Rio, AD Del Genio, F Hourdin - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review While the increase of computer power mobilizes a part of the
atmospheric modeling community toward models with explicit convection or based on …

Overview of the Meso-NH model version 5.4 and its applications

C Lac, JP Chaboureau, V Masson… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper presents the Meso-NH model version 5.4. Meso-NH is an atmospheric non
hydrostatic research model that is applied to a broad range of resolutions, from synoptic to …

Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: from CMIP3 to CMIP5

JL Dufresne, MA Foujols, S Denvil, A Caubel, O Marti… - Climate dynamics, 2013 - Springer
We present the global general circulation model IPSL-CM5 developed to study the long-term
response of the climate system to natural and anthropogenic forcings as part of the 5th …

[HTML][HTML] A combined local and nonlocal closure model for the atmospheric boundary layer. Part I: Model description and testing

JE Pleim - Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer during convective conditions has long
been a major source of uncertainty in the numerical modeling of meteorological conditions …

Are general circulation models obsolete?

V Balaji, F Couvreux, J Deshayes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Traditional general circulation models, or GCMs—that is, three-dimensional dynamical
models with unresolved terms represented in equations with tunable parameters—have …

The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection

F Hourdin, I Musat, S Bony, P Braconnot, F Codron… - Climate Dynamics, 2006 - Springer
The LMDZ4 general circulation model is the atmospheric component of the IPSL–CM4
coupled model which has been used to perform climate change simulations for the 4th IPCC …

LMDZ6A: The atmospheric component of the IPSL climate model with improved and better tuned physics

F Hourdin, C Rio, JY Grandpeix… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the version of the LMDZ global atmospheric model used as the
atmospheric component of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace coupled model (IPSL‐CM6A …