| Recently, a multi-scale modeling system with unified physics was
developed at NASA Goddard. It consists of (1) a cloud-resolving model
(Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model, GCE model), (2) a regional scale model
(a NASA unified weather research and forecast, WRF), (3) a coupled CRM
and global model (Goddard Multi-scale Modeling Framework, MMF), and (4)
a land modeling system. The same microphysical processes, long and short
wave radiative transfer and land processes and the explicit
cloud-radiation, and cloud-land surface interactive processes are
applied in this multi-scale modeling system. This modeling system has
been coupled with a multi-satellite simulator to use NASA
high-resolution satellite data to identify the strengths and weaknesses
of cloud and precipitation processes simulated by the model.
In this talk, a review of developments and applications of the
multi-scale modeling system will be presented. In particular, the
microphysics development and its performance for the multi-scale
modeling system will be presented. |