Identification of error sources in convective planetary boundary layer cloud forecasts using SIRTA observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Mathieu, A ^a,b   Piriou, J M ^c   Haeffelin, M ^d,f   Drobinski, P ^a,e   Vinit, F ^c   Bouyssel, F ^c  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^f ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; ERRORS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ERROR SOURCES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SIRTA OBSERVATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34047242875     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026001     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Beljaars, A. C. M., and P. Viterbo (1999), Soil moisture-precipitation interaction: Experience with two land surface schemes in the ECMWF model, in Global Energy and Water Cycles, pp. 223-233, edited by K. Browning and R. Gurney, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
2. Bougeault, P. (1985), A simple parameterization of the large-scale effects of deep cumulus convection, Mon. Weather. Rev., 113, 2108-2121.
3. Geleyn, J.-F. (1987), Use of a modified Richardson number for parameterising the effect of shallow convection, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., Spec. 1986 NWP Symp., 141-149.
4. Guichard, F., D. B. Parsons, J. Dudhia, and J. Bresch (2003), Evaluation mesoscale model predictions of clouds and radiation with ARM data over a seasonal time scale, Mon. Weather Rev., 131, 926-944.
5. Haeffelin, M., et al. (2005), SIRTA, a ground-based atmospheric observatory for cloud and aerosol research, Ann. Geophys., 23, 253-275.
6. Jakob, C. (2003), An improved strategy for the evaluation of cloud parameterizations in GCMs, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 84, 1387-1401.
7. Louis, J. F. (1979), A parametric model of vertical eddy fluxes in the atmosphere, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 17, 187-192.
8. Mathieu, A., A. Lahellec, and A. Weill (2004), Evaluation of a numerical weather forecast model using boundary layer cloud top temperature retrieved from AVHRR, Mon. Heather Rev., 132, 915-928.
9. Morcrette, J.-J. (2002), Assessment of the ECMWF model cloudiness and surface radiation fields at the ARM SGP site, Mon. Weather Rev., 130, 257-277.
10. Tiedtke, M. (1989), A comprehensive mass flux scheme for cumulus parameterization in large-scale models, Mon. Weather Rev., 117, 1779-1800.
11. Tiedtke, M. (1993), Representation of clouds in large scale models, Mon. Weather Rev., 121, 3040-3061.
12. Xu, K. M., and D. A. Randall (1996), Explicit simulation of cumulus ensembles with the GATE Phase III data: Comparison with observations, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3710-3736.