The ALADIN System and its canonical model configurations AROME CY41T1 and ALARO CY40T1

P Termonia, C Fischer, E Bazile… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The ALADIN System is a numerical weather prediction (NWP) system developed by the
international ALADIN consortium for operational weather forecasting and research …

The Canadian fourth generation atmospheric global climate model (CanAM4). Part I: representation of physical processes

K von Salzen, JF Scinocca, NA McFarlane… - Data, Models and …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) has developed the
fourth generation of the Canadian Atmospheric Global Climate Model (CanAM4). The new …

Cloudnet: Continuous evaluation of cloud profiles in seven operational models using ground-based observations

AJ Illingworth, RJ Hogan, EJ O'connor… - Bulletin of the …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Cloudnet project aims to provide a systematic evaluation of clouds in forecast and
climate models by comparing the model output with continuous ground-based observations …

Large‐eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: A comprehensive evaluation

R Heinze, A Dipankar, CC Henken… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐eddy simulations (LES) with the new ICOsahedral Non‐hydrostatic atmosphere
model (ICON) covering Germany are evaluated for four days in spring 2013 using …

A flexible and efficient radiation scheme for the ECMWF model

RJ Hogan, A Bozzo - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes a new radiation scheme ecRad for use both in the model of the
European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and off‐line for …

The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2–LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations

GFDL Global Atmospheric Model … - Journal of …, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
The configuration and performance of a new global atmosphere and land model for climate
research developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) are presented …

A description of hydrometeor layer occurrence statistics derived from the first year of merged Cloudsat and CALIPSO data

GG Mace, Q Zhang, M Vaughan… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence statistics of hydrometeor layers covering the Earth's surface is described
using the first year of millimeter radar data collected by Cloudsat merged with lidar data …

A fast, flexible, approximate technique for computing radiative transfer in inhomogeneous cloud fields

R Pincus, HW Barker… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Radiative transfer schemes in large‐scale models tightly couple assumptions about cloud
structure to methods for solving the radiative transfer equation, which makes these schemes …

Impact of a new radiation package, McRad, in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System

JJ Morcrette, HW Barker, JNS Cole… - Monthly weather …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
A new radiation package,“McRad,” has become operational with cycle 32R2 of the
Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather …

Effect of improving representation of horizontal and vertical cloud structure on the Earth's global radiation budget. Part I: Review and parametrization

JKP Shonk, RJ Hogan, JM Edwards… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A poor representation of cloud structure in a general circulation model (GCM) is widely
recognised as a potential source of error in the radiation budget. Here, we develop a new …