Journal article

Cloud-system-resolving model simulations of tropical cloud systems observed during the tropical warm pool-international cloud experiment

K Wapler, TP Lane, PT May, C Jakob, MJ Manton, ST Siems

Monthly Weather Review | Published : 2010

Abstract

Nested cloud-system-resolving model simulations of tropical convective clouds observed during the recent Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) are conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The WRF model is configured with a highest-resolving domain that uses 1.3-km grid spacing and is centered over Darwin, Australia. The performance of the model in simulating two different convective regimes observed during TWP-ICE is considered. The first regime is characteristic of the active monsoon, which features widespread cloud cover that is similar to maritime convection. The second regime is a monsoon break, which contains intense localized systems that ..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council Discovery


Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects funding scheme (DP0770381). Computing facilities were provided by the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing. We thank Michael Whimpey for providing the radar data and Timothy Hume for the rain gauge data. We also want to thank Simon Caine for his assistance with the model configuration, and Rit Carbone and one anonymous reviewer for their useful comments that helped improve the manuscript.