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Effects of cloud superparameterization at the land-atmosphere interface
Mike PritchardAssistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Acknowledging UCI researchers: Jian Sun, Hossein Parishani, and Gabe Kooperman
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Cloud superparameterization
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Examples of progress using superparameterized algorithms in fixing long-standing problems linked to deep convection.
• More realistic intensity distribution of rainfall
• Missing weather patterns emerge
• Central US mesoscale convective systems
• The Madden-Julian Oscillation
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Energy limitations are morphing supercomputers in new ways.Power density / cooling demands of multi-core systems hitting a limit.
Source: Kogge and Shalf, IEEE CISECourtesy of Horst Simon, LBNL
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Serial CPU clock speeds are not increasing.
Source: Kogge and Shalf, IEEE CISECourtesy of Horst Simon, LBNL
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Superparameterization is well situated to exploit new emerging forms of co-processor computing power.
• Communication bottlenecks often limit access to new forms of co-processor computing power.
• Especially for climate simulation, which involves a lot of communication.
• Superparameterization is an unusually low-communication algorithm.
• Serious potential to computationally expand the paradigm.
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How can super-parameterization impact land-surface energy exchange?
Slide courtesy of UCI postdoc Gabe Kooperman
SWIN LWIN SWOUT LWOUTLatent Heat Sensible Heat
Ground Heat
Surface InterfaceGround Evaporation
Canopy Evaporation
Transpiration
Atmospheric:Wind
HumidityTemperature
Cloudsand Rain
Rain intensity:RunoffInfiltrationThroughflowSoil Moisture
Seasonal and Diurnal Phasing of Clouds
CO2, SW, etc.
Humidity Temperature
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Part I.
Assessment of land-atmosphere coupling in SPCAM3.5 versus CAM3.5
Sun and Pritchard, in review for JAMES
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• SPCAM v3.5 versus CAM v3.5
• 20-year AMIP simulations; SSTs prescribed.
• ~2.5 degree global resolution.
• In SPCAM, embedded cloud-resolving models with 8 CRM columns spaced 4 km apart.
Simulations
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Terrestrial segment.
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soil water variability
regression slope vs. soil water
(Dirmeyer 2011)
Terrestrial coupling index
JJA “ILH” from the Global Soil Wetness Project GSWP-2
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SP-CAM CAMJJA
Effect of superparameterization on “ILH” during JJA
Sun and Pritchard, in review
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Several favorable regional effects.
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SP-CAM CAM
Removal of unrealistic coupling across Northern Africa, Middle East; enhanced coupling contrast across ITCZ.
JJA
Dirmeyer (2011)GSWP v2JJA
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SP-CAM CAMJJA
Dirmeyer (2011)GSWP v2JJA
Enhanced negative coupling over Central / Eastern China.
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Enhanced wet season negative tropical rainforest coupling
SP-CAM CAM
Dirmeyer (2011)GSWP v2
DJF
DJF
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Atmospheric segment.
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Evaporative Fractionvariability
(Findell et al. 2011)Triggering Feedback Strength Probability of afternoon
rainfall occurrence
Morning evaporativefraction
“TFS” from the North American Regional Reanalysis:
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SP-CAM CAM
Superparameterization reduces the triggering feedback strength (TFS).
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More realistic land-atmosphere triggering over US.
SP-CAM CAM
NARR Findell et al. 2011
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(Sun and Pritchard, in review)“PBL Feedback Strength”
Mean afternoon PBL height
Evaporative Fractionvariability
Morning evaporativefraction
PBLHPFSPBLH
Introducing:
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SP-CAM CAM
PFSLCL
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SP-CAM CAM
In CAM, a disconnect between convective triggering versus PBL sensitivity to morning evaporative fraction.
TFS
PFSPBLH
PFSLCL
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Part II.
An unintended effect of superparameterization at the land interface revealed by ARM data.
Pritchard et al, in prep
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- For a given time step, plot 2m T&Q in energy space;- Surface vector can be calculated with PBL height, Hsfc and LEsfc;- Residual vector then can be derived from the T-Q trajectory and surface vector,
which represent the atmospheric response including entrainment, advection, etc.
Bettsian mixing diagrams following the LoCo (“local coupling”) approach of Santanello et al.
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Composite mixing diagrams for models versus ARM SGP.
ARM SGP DATA(MERGESONDE)
SPCAM
CAM
Climatological diurnal cycle from 15 independent realizations of JJA
Spurious diurnal
moisture cycle
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The spurious 2-m moisture cycle is not unique to SGP.
SPCAM CAM
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PBL-integrated energetics tell a different story than 2-m mixing diagrams, suggesting it is not a fundamental change in entrainment dynamics.
2-m state is not a robust proxy for whole-PBL model differences in LoCo mixing diagrams.
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Implies problem is close to the surface.
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SP-CAM CAM
ARM SGP DATA
Vertically resolved humidity tendency vs. data highlights key symptom:
• Unobserved early morning surface moistening.
• Followed by strong late morning drying
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The essence of the bias can be reproduced in short hindcast simulations, which opens the door to understanding it.
6am 6pm
(5-day 6/20/1997 hindcast, all land grid points 20S-60N)
SPCAM
CAM
Moisture bump
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What causes the spurious moisture bump?
H1: InsufficientCRM resolution
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Motivation: Known artifacts of coarse cloud resolving resolution.
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Figures from Jason Simon, Civil Engineering, Berkeley — AGU 2015 poster.
WRF-LES convergence tests of continental PBL development a
LES (50-m dx) CRM (1 km dx)
Insufficient dx linked to familiar surface-amplified morning bias
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What causes the spurious moisture bump?
H1: InsufficientCRM resolution
Expect: Radically higherCRM resolution removes the bump.
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128 kmdx ~ 4 km 30
levels
Standard superparameterization grid structure
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dx ~ 250 m dz ~ 20 m
120 levels
“Ultraparameterization”
(Now affordable for 5-day hindcasts)
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Insensitivity to cloud-resolving resolution.
SPCAM
CAM
UltraCAM
Stubbornmoisture
bump
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What causes the spurious moisture bump?
H1: InsufficientCRM resolution
X
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Clue: bump is associated with surface flux magnitude.
Reducedbump
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What causes the spurious moisture bump?
H1: InsufficientCRM resolution Sensitive to surface flux screening
H2: Something is wrong withthe way surface fluxes are
transmitted to the CRM
X
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dT
z
Standard CAM boundary layer parameterization:
Step 1:Apply surface fluxes to lowestmodel layer
Step 2:Apply countergradient terms from turbulent diffusion parameterization to spread fluxes vertically.
dT
z
Context.
Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
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Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
Conventional boundary layerdiffusion parameterization
dT
z
dT
z Moist convectionparameterization
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
z
Hydrostatic dynamics
In the context of the greater integration circuit.
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Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
Conventional boundary layerdiffusion parameterization
dT
z
dT
z Moist convectionparameterization
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
z
Hydrostatic dynamics
In the context of the greater integration circuit.
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Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
Conventional boundary layerdiffusion parameterization
dT
z
dT
z Moist convectionparameterization
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
z
Hydrostatic dynamics
When superparameterization is used…… cloud resolving models replace PBL and moist convection parameterizations.
…surface fluxes felt by CRM via. retained initial perturbation on lowest model layer in BL scheme.
Net physics tendency
dT
z
This would be fine except that…
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Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
Conventional boundary layerdiffusion parameterization
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
zHydrostatic
dynamics
Problem: Dynamics is called in between PBL and superparameterization in SPCAM.
Underlying problem: Hydrostatic dycore feels undesirable tendency.
Consistent with a near-surface symptom
output
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Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
z
Hydrostatic dynamics
Potential fix: Wait to apply surface fluxes.
Ensures dycore receives a complete physics tendency
The spurious bump disappears
expect
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SPCAM
CAM
SPCAM-fixed
Consistent with expectation, bump disappears.
No more bump.
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What causes the spurious moisture bump?
H1: InsufficientCRM resolution
H2: Something is wrong withthe way surface fluxes are
transmitted to the CRM
Unintended order of flux / dynamic adjustment operations found
Correcting it removes the moisture bump symptom
X✔
✔
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Underlying problem in SPCAM: Hydrostatic dycore feels undesirable tendency.
Fluxes fromland model
dT
z
Conventional boundary layerdiffusion parameterization
dT
z
Net physics tendency
dT
z
Hydrostatic dynamics
New Question:How has this limited the
potential of previous SPCAM simulations?
How does correcting the problem impact
Supermonsoons?
The Great Red Spot?
The MJO?
The daily cycle of rainfall?
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Promising changes in coastal low cloud fraction
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Stay tuned!
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Meanwhile, ARM data & CAPT hindcasts point to value of vertical resolution and issues of chronic daytime overentrainment.
CAM
SPCAM 8x1
UltraCAM 8x8(hi-res helps)
MERGESONDEDATA
Humidity evolution, June 1997 hindcast @ SGP
hPa
hPa
hPa
hPa
Local solar time
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Summary.
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• Terrestrial segment:
• Reduced N. African, Middle-East positive JJA coupling; enhanced cross-ITCZ contrast; enhanced E. China JJA negative coupling; enhanced DJF rainforest negative coupling.
• Atmospheric segment:
• Probability of afternoon rainfall less sensitive to surface state in inappropriate regions.
• Synchrony emerges across rainfall triggering, PBL height and LCL sensitivities to surface wetness.
Favorable effects of super parameterization on land-atmosphere coupling.
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• Mixing diagram analysis at the SGP site turned up a spurious near-surface moisture cycle in SPCAM.
• Symptom of underlying issue in how surface fluxes are transmitted to its cloud resolving models.
• Inadvertently exposes the dynamical core to an incompletely adjusted subgrid physics tendency.
• This may have limited the potential of all previousSPCAM simulations.
ARM data is proving quite useful for improving superparameterized climate models.
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Thanks.