Understanding advances in the simulation of intraseasonal variability in the ECMWF model. Part II: The application of process-based diagnostics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 675, 2013, Pages 1427-1444

  Hirons, L C ^a   Inness, P ^a   Vitart, F ^a   Bechtold, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convective parametrization; Madden Julian Oscillation; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE HEATING; CONVECTIVE PARAMETRIZATION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENTRAINMENT; HINDCASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884205450     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2059     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bechtold P, Köhler M, Jung T, Doblas-Reyes F, Leutbecher M, Rodwell MJ, Vitart F, Balsamo G. 2008. Advances in simulating atmospheric variability with the ECMWF model: from synoptic to decadal timescales. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 134: 1337-1351.
2. Bladé I, Hartmann DL. 1993. Tropical intraseasonal oscillations in a simple nonlinear model. J. Atmos. Sci. 50: 2922-2939.
3. Bretherton CS, Peters ME, Back LE. 2004. Relationships between water vapor path and precipitation over the tropical oceans. J. Climate 17: 1517-1528.
4. Derbyshire SH, Beau I, Bechtold P, Grandpeix JY, Piriou JM, Redelsperger JL, Soares PMM. 2004. Sensitivity of moist convection to environmental humidity. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 130: 3055-3079.
5. de Rooy WC, Bechtold P, Frölich K, Hohenegger C, Jonker H, Mironov D, Siebesma AP, Teixeira J, Yano JI. 2012. Entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection: an overview. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., DOI: 10.1002/qj.1959.
6. Grabowski WW. 2003. MJO-like coherent structures: sensitivity simulations using the cloud-resolving convection parameterization (CRCP). J. Atmos. Sci. 60: 847-864.
7. Grabowski WW, Moncrieff MW. 2004. Moisture-convection feedback in the tropics. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 130: 3081-3104.
8. Hannah WM, Maloney ED. 2011. The role of moisture-convection feedbacks in simulating the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Climate 24: 2754-2770.
9. Hirons LC, Inness P, Vitart F, Bechtold P. 2012. Understanding advances in the simulation of intraseasonal variability in the ECMWF model. Part I. The representation of the MJO. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., DOI: 10.1002/qj.2060.
10. Holloway C. 2011. 'Cascade: high-resolution large-domain simulations of tropical convection'. In YOTC International Science Symposium and 8th AMY Workshop, Beijing: China.
11. Holloway CE, Neelin JD. 2009. Moisture vertical structure, column water vapour, and tropical deep convection. J. Atmos. Sci. 66: 1665-1683.
12. Inness PM, Slingo JM, Woolnough SJ, Neale RB, Pope VD. 2001. Organization of tropical convection in a GCM with varying vertical resolution: implications for the simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Clim. Dynam. 17: 777-793.
13. Inness PM, Slingo JM, Guilyardi E, Cole J. 2003. Simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in a coupled general circulation model. Part II. The role of the basic state. J. Climate 16: 365-382.
14. Johnson RH, Rickenbach TM, Rutledge SA, Ciesielski PE, Schubert WH. 1999. Trimodal characteristics of tropical convection. J. Climate 12: 2397-2418.
15. Kim D, Sperber K, Stern W, Waliser D, Kang I-S, Maloney E, Wang W, Weickmann K, Benedict J, Khairoutdinov M, Lee M-I, Neale R, Suarez M, Thayer-Calder K, Zhang G. 2009. Application of MJO simulation diagnostics to climate models. J. Climate 22: 6413-6436.
16. Klingaman N. 2011. 'Using a case-study approach to improve the MJO in the Hadley Centre climate model (HadGEM)'. In YOTC International Science Symposium and 8th AMY Workshop, Beijing: China.
17. Lin JL, Kiladis GN, Mapes BE, Weickmann KM, Sperber KR, Lin W, Wheeler MC, Schubert SD, Genio AD, Donner LJ, Emori S, Gueremy JF, Hourdin F, Rasch PJ, Roeckner E, Scinocca JF. 2006. Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models. Part I. Convective signals. J. Climate 19: 2665-2690.
18. Lin X, Johnson RH. 1996. Heating, moistening and rainfall over the Western Pacific Warm Pool during TOGA COARE. J. Atmos. Sci. 53: 3367-3383.
19. Ray P, Zhang C, Moncrieff MW, Dudhia J, Caron JM, Leung LR, Bruyere C. 2011. Role of the atmospheric mean state on the initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in a tropical channel model. Clim. Dynam. 36: 161-184.
20. Raymond DJ. 2000. Thermodynamic control of tropical rainfall. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 126: 889-898.
21. Raymond DJ, Fuchs Z. 2009. Moisture modes in the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Climate 22: 3031-3046.
22. Raymond DJ, Sessions SL, Sobel AH, Fuchs Z. 2009. The mechanics of gross moist stability. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 1: article 9.
23. Redelsperger JL, Parsons DB, Guichard F. 2002. Recovery processes and factors limiting cloud-top height following the arrival of a dry intrusion observed during TOGA-COARE. J. Atmos. Sci. 59: 2438-2457.
24. Sobel AH, Maloney ED, Bellon G, Frierson DM. 2010. Surface fluxes and tropical intraseasonal variability: a reassessment. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 2: article 2.
25. Sperber KR, Gualdi S, Legutke S, Gayler V. 2005. The Madden-Julian Oscillation in ECHAM4 Coupled and Uncoupled GCMs. Clim. Dynam. 25: 117-140.
26. Thayer-Calder K, Randall DA. 2009. The role of convective moistening in the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci. 66: 3297-3312.
27. Waite ML, Khouider B. 2010. The deepening of tropical convection by congestus preconditioning. J. Atmos. Sci. 67: 2601-2615.
28. Waliser DE, Sperber KR, Hendon HH, Kim D, Maloney ED, Wheeler MC, Weickmann KM, Zhang C, Donner L, Gottschalck J, Higgins W, Kang IS, Legler D, Moncrieff M, Schubert S, Stern W, Vitart F, Wang B, Wang W, Woolnough SJ. 2009. MJO simulation diagnostics. J. Climate 22: 3006-3030.
29. Yano JI, Plant R. 2012. Finite departure from convective quasiequilibrium: periodic cycle and discharge-recharge mechanism. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 138: 626-637.
30. Zhang C, Dong M, Gualdi S, Hendon HH, Maloney ED, Marshall A, Sperber KR, Wang W. 2006. Simulations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in four pairs of coupled and uncoupled global models. Clim. Dynam. 27: 573-592.
31. Zhu H, Hendon HH, Jakob C. 2009. Convection in a parameterized and superparameterized model and its role in the representation of the MJO. J. Atmos. Sci. 66: 2796-2811.