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Intheleeofmajormountainchainsworldwide,diurnalphysicsoforganizedpropagatingconvection project onto seasonal and climate time scales of the hydrologic cycle, but this phenomenon is not represented in conventional global climate models (GCMs). Analysis of an experimental version of the superparameterized (SP) Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) demonstrates that propagating orogenic nocturnal convection in the central U.S. warm season is, however, representable in GCMs that use the embedded explicit convection model approach [i.e., multiscale modeling frameworks (MMFs)]. SP-CAM admits propagating organized convective systems in the lee of the Rockies during synoptic conditions similar to those that generate mesoscale convective systems in nature. The simulated convective systems exhibit spatial scales, phase speeds, and propagation speeds comparable to radar observations, and the genesis mechanism in the model agrees qualitatively with established conceptual models. Convective heating and condensate structures are examined on both resolvedscales in SP-CAM, and coherently propagating cloud ‘‘metastructures’’ are shown to transcend individual cloud-resolving model arrays. In reconciling how this new mode of diurnal convective variabilityis admittedin SP-CAMdespite thesevereidealizations in the cloud-resolvingmodel configuration, an updated discussion is presented of what physics may transcend the re-engineered scale interface in MMFs. The authors suggest that the improved diurnal propagation physics in SP-CAM are mediated by large-scale first-baroclinic gravity wave interactions with a prognostic organization life cycle, emphasizing the physical importance of preserving ‘‘memory’’ at the inner resolved scale.

Orogenic Propagating Precipitation Systems over the United States in a Global Climate Model with Embedded Explicit Convection