Impact of Convection‐Permitting and Model Resolution on the Simulation of Mesoscale Convective System Properties Over East Asia

Author:

Ding Tian12ORCID,Guo Zhun1ORCID,Zou Liwei1ORCID,Zhou Tianjun123ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China

2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China

3. CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Beijing China

Abstract

AbstractIn this study, two limited‐area convection‐permitting models (ICON‐CPMs) and convection‐parameterized models (ICON‐CParMs) covering the Asia monsoon region from ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model are conducted to investigate the sensitivities of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) to convection configurations and horizontal resolutions. We find that ICON‐CPMs outperform ICON‐CParMs and ERA5 in number, lifetime, size, shape, orientation, effective speed, and MCS‐mean precipitation. Compared to the satellite observation, MCSs in ICON‐CParMs and ERA5 are oversized (30%–66%) and have longer (21%–29%) lifetimes but occur less (37%–46%) frequently. When turning off the convection scheme, performances are improved to a large extent. The underestimation of MCS‐mean precipitation rates in ICON‐CParMs and ERA5 are improved in ICON‐CPMs. Moisture budgets show that low‐level winds rather than moisture determine the strength of MCS‐mean precipitation rate. The strong low‐level convergence produces strong updrafts in ICON‐CPMs and eventually results in strong MCS precipitation. The overly intense convective precipitation of MCSs in CPMs is an inherent problem since the scale of convection triggered at the gray zone grid spacing is larger than that in the real world. Although the MCS‐mean precipitation rate is closer to the satellite observation in ICON‐CPMs, it is actually a compensation for overly strong convective precipitation and overly weak stratiform precipitation. Upgrading resolution from 8 to 4 km in ICON‐CPMs has benefits in simulating MCS lifetime, size, shape, orientation, and precipitation but not in MCS number.

Publisher

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Atmospheric Science,Geophysics

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