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A new convective adjustment scheme. Part II: Single column tests using GATE wave, BOMEX, ATEX and arctic air‐mass data sets
Author(s) -
Betts A. K.,
Miller M. J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49711247308
Subject(s) - convection , column (typography) , sensitivity (control systems) , arctic , the arctic , scheme (mathematics) , transformation (genetics) , surface air temperature , meteorology , environmental science , climatology , atmospheric sciences , geology , mathematics , physics , engineering , geometry , mathematical analysis , electronic engineering , chemistry , precipitation , biochemistry , oceanography , gene , connection (principal bundle)
The schemes proposed in part I are tested using single‐column data sets from tropical field experiments (GATE, BOMEX, ATEX) and an arctic air‐mass transformation. Both the deep and shallow schemes perform well. The sensitivity of the schemes to adjustable parameters is also studied. Preliminary global forecasts show significant improvements in the global surface fluxes and mean tropical temperature tendency over the operational Kuo convection scheme.