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@ARTICLE{Rybka:904520,
author = {Rybka, Harald and Burkhardt, Ulrike and Köhler, Martin and
Arka, Ioanna and Bugliaro, Luca and Görsdorf, Ulrich and
Horváth, Ákos and Meyer, Catrin I. and Reichardt, Jens and
Seifert, Axel and Strandgren, Johan},
title = {{T}he behavior of high-{CAPE} (convective available
potential energy) summer convection in large-domain
large-eddy simulations with {ICON}},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {21},
number = {6},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-06090},
pages = {4285 - 4318},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Current state-of-the-art regional numerical weather
prediction (NWP) models employ kilometer-scale horizontal
grid resolutions, thereby simulating convection within the
grey zone. Increasing resolution leads to resolving the 3D
motion field and has been shown to improve the
representation of clouds and precipitation. Using a
hectometer-scale model in forecasting mode on a large domain
therefore offers a chance to study processes that require
the simulation of the 3D motion field at small horizontal
scales, such as deep summertime moist convection, a
notorious problem in NWP.We use the ICOsahedral
Nonhydrostatic weather and climate model in large-eddy
simulation mode (ICON-LEM) to simulate deep moist convection
and distinguish between scattered, large-scale dynamically
forced, and frontal convection. We use different ground- and
satellite-based observational data sets, which supply
information on ice water content and path, ice cloud cover,
and cloud-top height on a similar scale as the simulations,
in order to evaluate and constrain our model simulations.We
find that the timing and geometric extent of the
convectively generated cloud shield agree well with
observations, while the lifetime of the convective anvil
was, at least in one case, significantly overestimated.
Given the large uncertainties of individual ice water path
observations, we use a suite of observations in order to
better constrain the simulations. ICON-LEM simulates a cloud
ice water path that lies between the different observational
data sets, but simulations appear to be biased towards a
large frozen water path (all frozen hydrometeors).
Modifications of parameters within the microphysical scheme
have little effect on the bias in the frozen water path and
the longevity of the anvil. In particular, one of our
convective days appeared to be very sensitive to the initial
and boundary conditions, which had a large impact on the
convective triggering but little impact on the high frozen
water path and long anvil lifetime bias. Based on this
limited set of sensitivity experiments, the evolution of
locally forced convection appears to depend more on the
uncertainty of the large-scale dynamical state based on data
assimilation than of microphysical parameters.},
cin = {JSC},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
(SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000632219700002},
doi = {10.5194/acp-21-4285-2021},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904520},
}