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The Impact of Low-Level Cloud over the Eastern Subtropical Pacific on the "Double ITCZ" in LASG FGCM-0


doi: 10.1007/BF02690804

  • Like many other coupled models, the Flexible coupled General Circulation Model (FGCM-0) suffersfrom the spurious "Double ITCZ". In order to understand the "Double ITCZ" in FGCM-0, this study firstexamines the low-level cloud cover and the bulk stability of the low troposphere over the eastern subtropicalPacific simulated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Modelversion 3 (CCM3), which is the atmosphere component model of FGCM-0. It is found that the bulkstability of the low troposphere simulated by CCM3 is very consistent with the one derived from theNational Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis, but the simulated low-level cloud coveris much less than that derived from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) D2data. Based on the regression equations between the low-level cloud cover from the ISCCP data and thebulk stability of the low troposphere derived from the NCEP reanalysis, the parameterization scheme otlow-level cloud in CCM3 is modified and used in sensitivity experiments to examine the impact of low-levelcloud over the eastern subtropical Pacific on the spurious "Double ITCZ" in FGCM-0. Results show thatthe modified scheme causes the simulated low-level cloud cover to be improved locally over the cold oceans.Increasing the low-level cloud cover off Peru not only significantly alleviates the SST warm biases in thesoutheastern tropical Pacific, but also causes the equatorial cold tongue to be strengthened and to extendfurther west. Increasing the low-level cloud fraction off California effectively reduces the SST warm biasesin ITCZ north of the equator. In order to examine the feedback between the SST and low-level cloudcover off Peru, one additional sensitivity experiment is performed in which the SST over the cold ocean offPeru is restored. It shows that decreasing the SST results in similar impacts over the wide regions fromthe southeastern tropical Pacific northwestwards to the western/central equatorial Pacific as increasing thelow-level cloud cover does.
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The Impact of Low-Level Cloud over the Eastern Subtropical Pacific on the "Double ITCZ" in LASG FGCM-0

  • 1. LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029;Beijing Institute of Applied Meteorology, Beijing 100029,LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029,LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029,LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029,LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029;National Climate Center, Beijing 100081

Abstract: Like many other coupled models, the Flexible coupled General Circulation Model (FGCM-0) suffersfrom the spurious "Double ITCZ". In order to understand the "Double ITCZ" in FGCM-0, this study firstexamines the low-level cloud cover and the bulk stability of the low troposphere over the eastern subtropicalPacific simulated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Modelversion 3 (CCM3), which is the atmosphere component model of FGCM-0. It is found that the bulkstability of the low troposphere simulated by CCM3 is very consistent with the one derived from theNational Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis, but the simulated low-level cloud coveris much less than that derived from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) D2data. Based on the regression equations between the low-level cloud cover from the ISCCP data and thebulk stability of the low troposphere derived from the NCEP reanalysis, the parameterization scheme otlow-level cloud in CCM3 is modified and used in sensitivity experiments to examine the impact of low-levelcloud over the eastern subtropical Pacific on the spurious "Double ITCZ" in FGCM-0. Results show thatthe modified scheme causes the simulated low-level cloud cover to be improved locally over the cold oceans.Increasing the low-level cloud cover off Peru not only significantly alleviates the SST warm biases in thesoutheastern tropical Pacific, but also causes the equatorial cold tongue to be strengthened and to extendfurther west. Increasing the low-level cloud fraction off California effectively reduces the SST warm biasesin ITCZ north of the equator. In order to examine the feedback between the SST and low-level cloudcover off Peru, one additional sensitivity experiment is performed in which the SST over the cold ocean offPeru is restored. It shows that decreasing the SST results in similar impacts over the wide regions fromthe southeastern tropical Pacific northwestwards to the western/central equatorial Pacific as increasing thelow-level cloud cover does.

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