Session V7: Current Issues in Climate Change

11:15 AM–1:39 PM, Thursday, March 8, 2007
Colorado Convention Center Room: Korbel 4A-4B

Sponsoring Unit: FPS
Chair: Barbara Levi, Physics Today, American Institute of Physics

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.MAR.V7.3

Abstract: V7.00003 : Counting the Clouds

12:27 PM–1:03 PM

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Author:

  David Randall
    (Colorado State University)

Cloud processes are very important for the global circulation of the atmosphere. It is now possible, though very expensive, to simulate the global circulation of the atmosphere using a model with resolution fine enough to explicitly represent the larger individual clouds. An impressive preliminary calculation of this type has already been performed by Japanese scientists, using the Earth Simulator. Within the next few years, such global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs) will be applied to weather prediction, and later they will be used in climate-change simulations. A ``multi-scale modeling framework'' can be used as a bridge between current low-resolution climate models and future GCRMs.

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