Update on CAM2.X
Development
and Future Research Directions
CAM 2.X Physics Changes Relative to CAM2
Examples of Simulation Improvements:
Examples of Simulation Improvements:
Examples of Simulation Improvements:
High-resolution configurations
T85 Zonal Annual Mean Temperatures
Current Assessment of High-Resolution Coupled Simulation (oceanographer’s perspective)
"Extensions to modeling capabilities"
"Extensions to modeling capabilities"
Other Notable Simulation Features:
Extension to Include Convective Cloud Fraction
Other Notable Simulation Features:
Example of extensions to cloud scheme
Second change motivated by problems with physics package at high resolution and in FV dynamical core
Standard Physics Tuning Implications
Provide additional source
of cloud liquid water
from “shallow convection” process
Detrainment of cloud liquid water to prognostic clouds from shallow convection
Enhanced Physics Cloud Forcing (intermediate result)
Current Assessment of High-Resolution Coupled Simulation (oceanographer’s perspective)