CAUSES (Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface) "A new project with an observationally-based focus, which evaluates the role of clouds,

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CAUSES (Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface) "A new project with an observationally-based focus, which evaluates the role of clouds, radiation and precipitation processes in contributing to the surface temperature biases in the region of the central United States and which are seen in several weather and climate models." Cyril Morcrette, Jon Petch, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom. Hsi-Yen Ma, Stephen Klein, Shaocheng Xie, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, California, United States. And you! Please get in touch if you wish to participate

Aims: A joint GASS/ASR comparison project aiming to evaluate clouds and radiation in several weather and climate models using ground-based observations. The warm bias over the US in summer is common to many GCMs. It is seen in several climate models’ long-term climate mean and it shows up as a bias within a few days when running climate models from analysis in NWP mode. Please get in touch if you wish to participate Introduction (1)

We hypothesize that the US warm bias is due to a combination of errors involving the land and atmosphere. Potential issues include: the diurnal cycle of convection, timing of precipitation and how much evaporates, soil moisture, surface fluxes, organization and propagation of convection, shallow convection, radiative impact of convective cores, detrained cloud and anvils. Please get in touch if you wish to participate Introduction (2)

In this project, we aim to understand the role of errors in the atmosphere model in contributing to the warm bias seen in climate models. Specifically, we are proposing study of two areas of investigation: Part I) Focus on the errors in clouds and radiation What is the contribution of radiation errors to the temperature errors? How much of the errors in radiation result from errors in clouds and their properties? Which cloud regimes contribute most to the radiation errors? Based on method in Morcrette et al. (2012). This effort will be led Cyril Morcrette. Part II) Focus on the simulated precipitation and surface energy balance What is the relative contribution of precipitation errors to the temperature errors? Does the atmosphere provide the correct amount of precipitation for the soil? Which type of precipitating convection systems dominate the errors in the surface precipitation? Does the surface energy balance reveal signs that evaporation is underestimated due to the lack of soil moisture? Based largely upon Klein et al. (2006). This effort will be led by Hsi-Yen Ma. Please get in touch if you wish to participate Introduction (3)

Please get in touch if you wish to participate The investigation will be focussed on the American mid-west and use observations obtained from the SGP site (36.61 N, W). The period we have chosen is the warm season of 2011, which at its start featured a major ARM field campaign: the Midlatitude Continental Convective Cloud Exeperiment (MC3E, 22 April to 6 June 2011). Region and Period of Analysis

Please get in touch if you wish to participate All models to be run in weather forecasting (NWP) mode. We aim to look at the growth of the errors as a function of lead time. Initially we will focus on the period T+00 to T+72, with daily re-initialization from analyses (i.e. ECMWF, 00Z analyses) We may also look at some longer range hindcasts such as 30-day simulations started on the first of the month, to study how the model drift from its day-3 bias to its climate-mean bias. Model Simulations

Please get in touch if you wish to participate Model Output Requested (this is open to discussion) Hourly, 2d fields for the region of the MC3E experiment (roughly 400 km x 400 km, centred on SGP site). Surface SW (diffuse & direct) Surface LW TOA (SW, LW) WVP, LWP, IWP Sfc sensible heat flx, sfc latent heat flx, soil moisture Hourly, 2d fields for continental US (to put ARM-SGP site into context). MSLP (hPa) sfc precip (mm/hr) 2m temperature 15-minute (or every timestep, if timestep>15 mins) frequency single-column output for the SGP site of: Temperature, specific humidity, pressure LWC, IWC, cloud fraction (separate liq & ice if appropriate) Anything else?

Please get in touch if you wish to participate Model Participation So far we have heard expressions of interest from groups running: Unified Model/HadGEM CAM NASA-GISS ECMWF? ECHAM? We are keen for this project to be an opportunity to bring model people and observations people together. Anyone else? Model/Gridlength km200-75km75-25km25-10km< 10 km NASA-GISS2.5 deg1 deg (maybe) CAM1 deg12 km MetOfficeN96(140km)N216(60km)12 km4 & 1 km