Treatment of Cloud Radiative Effects in General Circulation Models (GCMs): Cloud Overlap Effects on GCM Climate Simulations
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We participate in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program with two objectives: 1) to improve general circulation model (GCM) cloud/radiation treatment with focus on cloud vertical overlapping and layer cloud optical properties, and 2) to study the effects of cloud-radiation climate interaction on GCM climate simulations. This report summarizes the recent findings in sub-grid scale variability of cloud-radiation interaction while work on two other areas (radiative fluxes with aerosols and layer clouds) is on-going. A GCM grid used for climate simulations typically covers an
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