Cloud microphysics in global cloud resolving models

T Seiki, W Roh, M Satoh - Atmosphere-Ocean, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Global cloud resolving models (GCRMs) are a new type of general circulation model that
explicitly calculates the growth of cloud systems with fine spatial resolutions and more than …

[HTML][HTML] Toward reduction of the uncertainties in climate sensitivity due to cloud processes using a global non-hydrostatic atmospheric model

M Satoh, AT Noda, T Seiki, YW Chen… - Progress in Earth and …, 2018 - Springer
In estimates of climate sensitivity obtained from global models, the need to represent clouds
introduces a great deal of uncertainty. To address this issue, approaches using a high …

A 20-year climatology of a NICAM AMIP-type simulation

C Kodama, Y Yamada, AT Noda, K Kikuchi… - Journal of the …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A 20-year integration by the nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM) with a
14 km mesh was conducted for the first time to obtain a climatological mean and diurnal to …

Vertical resolution impacts explicit simulation of deep convection

AM Jenney, SL Ferretti… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The aggregation of tropical convection greatly influences the mean‐state of the atmosphere,
altering humidity distributions, total atmospheric radiative cooling, and cloud amounts …

[HTML][HTML] The non-hydrostatic global atmospheric model for CMIP6 HighResMIP simulations (NICAM16-S): Experimental design, model description, and sensitivity …

C Kodama, T Ohno, T Seiki, H Yashiro… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
NICAM, a nonhydrostatic global atmospheric model with an icosahedral grid system, has
been developed for nearly two decades. This paper describes NICAM16-S, the latest stable …

[HTML][HTML] Daytime top-of-the-atmosphere cirrus cloud radiative forcing properties at Singapore

S Lolli, JR Campbell, JR Lewis, Y Gu… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Daytime top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) cirrus cloud radiative forcing (CRF) is estimated for
cirrus clouds observed in ground-based lidar observations at Singapore in 2010 and 2011 …

Importance of minor‐looking treatments in global climate models

H Kawai, K Yoshida, T Koshiro… - Journal of Advances in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is very well known that parameter tuning can have a major impact on the performance of
Global Climate Models. However, parameter tuning is not the only implementation detail that …

Roles of cloud microphysics on cloud responses to sea surface temperatures in radiative‐convective equilibrium experiments using a high‐resolution global …

T Ohno, M Satoh - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐cloud amount responses to sea surface temperature (SST) changes were
investigated based on simulations with radiative‐convective equilibrium configuration using …

Fine vertical resolution radiative‐convective equilibrium experiments: Roles of turbulent mixing on the high‐cloud response to sea surface temperatures

T Ohno, M Satoh, A Noda - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the vertical resolution dependency of the high‐cloud fraction response on the
increase in sea surface temperature was investigated via radiative‐convective equilibrium …

Importance of pressure changes in high cloud area feedback due to global warming

T Ohno, AT Noda, T Seiki… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High clouds have large impacts on the Earth's radiation balance, and a better understanding
of their change in warmer climates is essential for climate projection science. Previous …