DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology · The University of Tokyo · +13 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract A review of the experimental protocol and motivation for DYAMOND, the first intercomparison project of global storm-resolving models, is presented. Nine models submitted simulation output for a 40-day (1 August–10 September 2016) intercomparison period. Eight of these employed a tiling of the sphere that was uniformly less than 5 km. By resolving the transient dynamics of convective storms in the tropics, global storm-resolving models remove the need to parameterize tropical deep convection, providing a fundamentally more sound representation of the climate system and a more natural link to commensurately high-resolution data from satellite-borne sensors. The models and some basic characteristics of…
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21Topics & keywords
- Tropical cyclone
- Precipitable water
- Environmental science
- Meteorology
- Storm
- Climatology
- Predictability
- Precipitation