Mid-Latitude incoming solar, ET & Clouds

[wwieder]

In an attempt to improve RESTOM @adamrher found high biases in incoming shortwave over mid-latitudes of NH land in summer.

We do have some suggestions from a coupled model PPE by @czarakas and friends suggests that land model parameters can influence incoming shortwave and clouds and are kicking off a slew of F-cases to investigate these in LWMG_dev.

[wwieder]

These experiments are more of a sensitivity test, to see the extent to which land parameters can influence, but informed by plots here from @aswann, @slevis-lmwg and I chose the following land model parameter changes in increase ET and decrease FSDS, especially in summer:

1. Control CTSM5.3 parameters in an FLT case + the following individual perturbations.
2. d_max (soil hydrology parameter, low values from PPE chosen = 10)
3. uplim_destruct_metamorph (snow parameter, high values from PPE = 250)
4. jmaxb0 (photosynthesis parameter, high value from PPE = 0.05)

[slevis-lmwg]

NCAR/LMWG_dev#78
NCAR/LMWG_dev#79
NCAR/LMWG_dev#80
NCAR/LMWG_dev#81

[wwieder]

I'll also note here that we have some indication that model and parameter changes that came in with CTSM5.3 in B-112, #15, may also be responsible for lower ET and clouds that increase FSDS, here for JJA?

• FSDS changes are not as widespread at CIRES results (above) may suggest.
• Differences not necessarily statistically significant
• See also Amazon Vegetation & Climate #26 and diags between B-112 vs B-111

[wwieder]

We are able to decrease summer incoming solar radiation in the NH. Changing photosynthetic parameter alone is the largest lever from the list above, and doing all three changes at once has (slightly) larger combined effects.

It's helpful to flip between plots showing results from all three parameters (also belowa) vs. just jmaxb0. Seems like differences from combined land parameter changes are ~12 W/m2, whereas @adamrher's bias plots above are > 30 W/m2

Thanks to @slevis-lmwg for doing these runs and diagnostics.

[adamrher]

Awesome work. I'd like to run some transient F-cases with both these configurations (just maxb0 vs. all three; could you provide the namelist settings?) so I can evaluate them against obs. Are these done in SP mode, or do I need to run the F-cases w/ BGC?

[slevis-lmwg]

@adamrher mine are in BGC mode. Details here:
NCAR/LMWG_dev#84
NCAR/LMWG_dev#87

jmaxb0 is a photosynthesis parameter, and it would likely have a similar effect in SP mode, but you would miss any feedback due to changes in Leaf Area Index.

Let me know if you would like me to check your cases before you submit them.

[adamrher]

OK, thanks for the info. We'll chat about whether to do SP or BGC (or both) at tmrw's CAM7 mtg.

[wwieder]

Some encouraging results in LMWG_dev#86. Full diagnostics are coming but this run by @slevis-lmwg that clones #25 with a new parameter set from @linniahawkins seems to decrease incoming solar (FSDS) and lower temperatures (TSA), shown below for annual means (averaged over years 11-20).