Low?Level Marine Tropical Clouds in Six CMIP6 Models Are Too Few, Too Bright but Also Too Compact and Too Homogeneous
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چکیده
Several studies have shown that most climate models underestimate cloud cover and overestimate reflectivity, particularly for the tropical low-level clouds. Here, we analyze characteristics of marine clouds simulated by six models, which provided COSP output within CMIP6 project. CALIPSO lidar observations PARASOL mono-directional reflectance are used model evaluation. It is found “too few, too bright” bias still present these models. The overestimated when low. Models do not simulate any optically thin They fail to reproduce increasing optical depth with lower tropospheric stability as observed. These results suggest sufficiently account effect small-scale spatial heterogeneity in properties or variety types at grid scale
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1944-8007', '0094-8276']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl097593