1. GCM activities in Ulrike Lohmann’s group
With results from Remo Dietlicher, David Neubauer and Steffen Münch

2. Gradual improvements in ECHAM-HAM
Activation scheme
Cloud cover scheme
Convective detrainment
Accretion of ice by snow
Cirrus ice crystal number
Mixed-phase freezing
ECHAM5.5-HAM2.0 (E55H20):
Zhang et al. (2012)
ECHAM6.1-HAM2.2 (E61H22):
Neubauer et al. (2014)
ECHAM6.3-HAM2.3 (E63H23):
Tegen et al. (2018)

3. Gradual improvements in ECHAM-HAM
More cloud water in stratocumulus regions and less elsewhere

4. Gradual improvements in ECHAM-HAM
Generally, newer model versions are better
Improvements are gradual

5. Cloud formation processes in a prognostic cloud cover scheme (Steffen Münch)

6. Cloud cover sources

7. Ice crystal sources

8. Cloud type contributions to the LW and SW cloud radiative effects in REF and Steffen’s model
Make clearer that this is a pathway analysis
Warm liquid raus

9. Most of the mixed-phase temperature regime is covered by ice that formed below -35 °C
Make clearer that this is a pathway analysis
Warm liquid raus
Homogeneous freezing at temperatures colder than -35 °C dominates mixed-phase ice (Dietlicher et al. 2018, ACPD)

10. Cloud radiative effects per formation pathway
Process rates
Formation pathways
Model integration
Cloud fields
Formation pathways keep track of the relative contribution of each process rate to the simulated cloud fields.

11. Supercooled liquid fraction (SLF)
Obs.
ECHAM also underestimates SLF, but less than CESM
 do we also underestimate ECS? And if so, by how much?
CESM Figure from Tan et al. (2016), ECHAM results from Lohmann and Neubauer (2014)

12. Equilibrium climate sensitivity
CESM
ECHAM6-HAM2
No ECS shift from cloud phase feedback between simulation REF and ALL_LIQ in ECHAM6-HAM2 despite a smaller negative cloud phase feedback in ALL_LIQ because of compensating feedbacks in the clear-sky
CESM Figure from Tan et al. (2016)

13. Impact of Remo’s new ice microphysics scheme
But: with our new ice microphysics scheme (Dietlicher et al., ACPD, 2018 and in prep.) the cloud optical depth feedback becomes positive and climate sensitivity increases to 3.8 ºC (vs. 2.5 ºC in REF)

14. Take-home messages – modelling results
We have two new stratiform cloud schemes: The single-category ice microphysics scheme of Remo (Dietlicher et al., ACPD, 2018) and a new cloud cover scheme also with changed microphysics from Steffen. Both schemes are more physical and perform at least as well as our current scheme.
The supercooled liquid fraction is not a good indicator for the cloud phase feedback because cloud phase matters most for clouds not shielded by higher clouds
ECS is significantly higher when using the Remo’s ice microphysics scheme with 3.8 ºC vs ºC. The reasons for this require further analysis but could be linked to a smaller contribution of mixed-phase clouds in that scheme.

15. Sensitivity studies: Which processes are necessary to reproduce the observations?
Ice nucleation on dust and vertical cirrus cover both bring the simulated ice crystal number concentration closer to observations. But there are still too many ice crystals in the model (watch out for scale).