Ongoing work to improve convection in the UM Keith Williams (most of the work by Martin Willett) WGNE-31, 28/04/16.

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Ongoing work to improve convection in the UM Keith Williams (most of the work by Martin Willett) WGNE-31, 28/04/16

Current problems Diurnal harmonic – convection peaks too early TRMMModel Phase Amplitude Convection peaks over land at local noon rather than late evening

© Crown copyright Met Office Current problems Convective temporal intermittency 10 day time series from a single grid point day 10day 0

Time-step intermittency precip (t) vs prec (t+1) Prince Xavier MJO-TF – GASS diabatic processes project

© Crown copyright Met Office Current problems Convection does not evolve through congestus phase (example in build up of the MJO) ERA-IModel Prince Xavier – MJO lead-lag composite of RH

N96 AMIP simulations. GA6GA7 Precip / mm day-1 Current problems Convective spatial intermittency (lack of organisation) Michael Whitall

N96 AMIP simulations. GA6GA7 Precip / mm day-1 Current problems Convective spatial intermittency (lack of organisation) Michael Whitall

N96 AMIP simulations. GA6GA7 Precip / mm day-1 Current problems Convective spatial intermittency (lack of organisation) Michael Whitall

© Crown copyright Met Office TRMMModel Current problems When accumulated too many points have a little rain, too few have a lot

© Crown copyright Met Office Current problems No correlation with dynamics at timestep/gridpoint level (although well correlated when meaned) Prince Xavier – correlation between w and precip. Harun Rashid (CSIRO)

© Crown copyright Met Office Convective Memory

© Crown copyright Met Office (Lack of) Memory The real atmosphere has “memory” on all spatial scales Scales that we can resolve (gridbox mean) Scales that we cannot resolve (subgrid deviation) But the model only has memory on resolved scales, i.e. Convection develops and operates on unresolved scales Need to parameterize it Tries to determine from Could the convection parameterization be improved if we had memory of convective scales?

© Crown copyright Met Office Convective memory New 3-dimensional prognostic P ̅ Measure of recent convective activity Based on convective precipitation at the surface Non-precipitating convection also contributes a bit Source non-zero on levels where convection is operating Fully advected sourcedecaysurface precipvertical expansion

© Crown copyright Met Office Adding convective memory Low recent convective activity Small convective clouds High entrainment rates High recent convective activity Large convective clouds Low entrainment rates

SCM: Toga Coare Control (blue) single entrainment rate for deep convection Convective memory (red) broad spectrum of entrainment rates Deepest convection is deeper More terminating at mid- levels (congestus) Michael Whitall Entrainment rate (km^-1) Frequency Convective cloud-top height (km) Frequency

Impact on diurnal cycle Control (blue) Peak around local noon Too little overnight Memory (red) Peak delayed Reduced amplitude More overnight But sometimes still have Spurious minimum in model precip in the late afternoon which often coincides with observed peak

N320 NWP case study TRMMControlMemory Convective memory reduces the amount of “light” precipitation Increases the frequency of heavy precipitation and generates more coherent structure Starting to look a little more realistic but limited skill?

N320 NWP case study TRMMControlMemory Control and Memory both capture AEW Possibly too fast and too strong in this case Control has a spurious peak in convection around local noon Memory reduces this peak

Summary There are a number of problems related to convection in the UM (diurnal cycle, temporal intermittency, lack of spatial organisation, …). Currently testing adding memory to the convection scheme using a new prognostic that measures recent convective activity: Vary entrainment rate in a physically plausible manner NWP performance and mean climate are not degraded Instantaneous structure of precipitation is improved Diurnal cycle of convection is improved Still more work to do, especially around intermittency and coupling to dynamics.

Starting to look at the convective closure Here, the convective closure is redundant. The mean convective mass-flux / rainfall over several timesteps is controlled by the % of timesteps on which convection is active. Max (hourly-mean) rain-rate happens here even though the closure implies smaller instantaneous mass-fluxes than earlier. The convective trigger is actually what controls the (hourly-mean) rainfall. Considering allowing triggering to control the closure