PPT Slide
- Assessing modeling capabilities
- Develop process diagnostics
- Assess consistency of popular parameterizations with
- Existing observations
- Detailed process models
- Other implementations
- Produce observational suites useful for diagnostic studies
- Model sensitivity of climate & variability to process uncertainties
- Single-model sensitivities
- Model intercomparisons (CMIP subprojects)
- Diagnosis of model errors attributable to errors in process parameterizations
- Determine accuracy requirements needed to capture main climate feedbacks
- Best use of observations
- Upscaling of local process measurements to needed space/time scales
- Quantify how errors associated with process uncertainties affect critical products
- Establish observing requirements for parameterizations
- Parameterization improvement
- Engage team members in development of improved parameterizations
- Evaluate new parameterizations
- Plan future process studies to address unresolved uncertainties