Diverse cloud radiative effects and global surface temperature simulations induced by different ice cloud optical property parameterizations.

ABSTRACT: The representation of ice cloud optical properties in climate models has long been a difficult problem. Very different ice cloud optical property parameterization schemes developed based on very different assumptions of ice particle shape habits, particle size distributions, and surface roughness conditions, are used in various models. It is not clear as to how simulated climate variables are affected by the ice cloud optical property parameterizations. A total of five ice cloud optical property parameterization schemes, including three based on the ice habit mixtures suitable for general ice clouds, mid-latitude synoptic ice clouds, and tropical deep convective ice clouds, and the other two based on single ice habits (smooth hexagonal column and severely roughened column aggregate), are d

SUBMITTER: Yi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9217801 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature