brianpm
commented
6 years ago As there have been no objections, I think we can go ahead and think of non-rotating RCE as "in development." I have not added anything to the GitHub repo or anywhere else yet.
Related, there is now a funded initiative that includes further development of RCE as a compset for CESM2. This provides a mechanism to move from "in development" to "supported," once we have the compset in the model.
Given this work plan, I am going to add the a label of "In Progress" to this issue.
I propose adding documentation for the radiative-convective equilibrium configuration of CAM to the "in development" area.
The configuration is a modified aquaplanet that has uniform SST and insolation and removes planetary rotation.
This configuration was documented in a paper: Reed, K. A., B. Medeiros, J. T. Bacmeister, and P. H. Lauritzen (2015), Global radiative-convective equilibrium in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 2183-2197, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0268.1.
The configuration also formed the basis of several other studies:
Reed, K.A. and D. R. Chavas (2015), Uniformly rotating global radiative-convective equilibrium in the Community Atmosphere Model, version 5, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7, 1938-1955, doi: 10.1002/2015MS000519. [Modified to have uniform rotation effects.]
Reed, K. A. and B. Medeiros (2016), A reduced complexity framework to bridge the gap between AGCMs and cloud-resolving models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 860-866, doi:10.1002/2015GL066713. [Small-planet experiments to probe resolution sensitivity.]
Bony, S., B. Stevens, D. Coppin, T. Becker, K. A. Reed, A. Voigt and B. Medeiros (2016), Thermodynamic control of anvil-cloud amount, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 113 (32), 8927-8932, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601472113. [A new understanding of anvil-cloud amount changes with surface temperature.]
Pendergrass, A. G., K. A. Reed and B. Medeiros (2016), The link between extreme precipitation and convective organization in a warming climate: Global radiative convective equilibrium simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 11445-11452, doi: 10.1002/2016GL071285. [Connecting extreme precipitation changes to changes in organization as surface temperature changes.]