The response of a spectral general circulation model to refinements in radiative processes.

Abstract

Presents results and analyses of a series of numerical experiments performed with a spectral general circulation model (GCM). The purpose of the GCM experiments was to examine the role of radiation/cloud processes in the general circulation of the troposphere and stratosphere. The experiments were primarily motivated by the significant improvements in the GCM zonal mean simulation as refinements were made in the model treatment of clear-sky radiation and cloud-radiative interactions. -from Authors