Improving Bulk Microphysics Schemes for Deep Convective Systems Using MC3E Data (Final Report)

Abstract

The centerpiece of the accomplishments under this (and related) grants is the increased knowledge of the capabilities of cloud-resolving models of convective systems, and their associated microphysics, especially of the biases of those models and their microphysics parameterization. Dr. Varble's leadership has been focused especially on the careful comparison of advanced model results with equally advanced observations to uncover and elucidate model successes, but clearly uncovering instances of model biases, in a way that suggests ways of overcoming those biases, toward model improvement in the future. Even a glance at the titles of the papers below will reveal the central significance of these advances; if desired, however, this report can be expanded upon request to discuss these advances in greater detail.