What is it about?
Currently, about half of the climate models have model top lower than 50km, and these climate models are widely used for the climate change study. This will lead to potential uncertainties as to climatology and climate change projection. We show that the models with very high model top, as high as above 50km, can help improve the atmospheric circulation in the winter stratosphere, and these models perform better than the models with lower model top.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Currently, about half of the climate models have model top lower than 50km, and these climate models are widely used for the climate change study. In this study, we showed that the models with higher model top can help improve the model simulation at lest in the stratosphere. Therefore, for a more accurate simulation of the atmospheric circulation, resolving the stratosphere is a must
Perspectives
The models with very high model top, as high as above 50km, can help improve the atmospheric circulation in the winter stratosphere, and have the potential to improve model climatology of lower circulation.
Ke Wei
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Influences of the Model Configuration on the Simulation of Stratospheric Northern-Hemisphere Polar Vortex in the CMIP5 Models, Advances in Meteorology, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2017/7326759.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
