Clouds, Aerosol, & Climate: Models & Other Methods
Models
A variety of models are used to conduct Clouds, Aerosol, & Climate research.
Parcel model
An adiabatic cloud parcel model that includes size-resolved microphysics and gas and aqueous phase chemistry. Aerosol/cloud droplets are resolved in size categories on a moving grid.
Aerosol-Cloud interactions in a coupled dynamical model to study boundary layer cloud systems
Microphysics options include Lagrangian particle, two-moment bin, and 2-moment bulk schemes
Regional
The System for Atmospheric Modeling (SAM) using the Framework for Improvement by Vertical Enhacement (FIVE) and a Simplified High Order Closure (SHOC).
Multiple applications including a large range of scale interactions
Subgrid scale (SGS) represented by Simplified High Order Closure (SHOC)
Adaptive Vertical Mesh (Framework for Improvement by Vertical Enhancement; FIVE)
2D Hadley Cell simulations as a framework for testing model physics
Conceptual
Heuristic models that simulate parts of the complex atmospheric system using a dynamical systems approach
Self organization and emergence in complex systems
Other Methods
Other methods used to conduct Clouds, Aerosol, & Climate research.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning to relate cloud system properties to important meteorological variables.
Statistical Emulators
Statistical Emulators that capture the essence of specific outputs of our Large Eddy Simulations in terms of key input variables.