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Experiment 1 - Test gravity wave drag (GWD), 1-pass (1X) vs. 3-pass (3X) terrain
Experiment 1 - Test gravity wave drag (GWD), 1-pass (1X) vs. 3-pass (3X) terrain
Experiment 2 - Test modified advection and diffusion
(All runs use GWD with SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, original advection)
Experiment 3 - Test different diffusion coefficients (COAC)
(GWD with SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 4 - Test convective momentum mixing
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, original advection)
Experiment 5 - Test changes to cloud-radiation parameters to reduce upper-level warm biases
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 6 - Test changes to microphysics, convection to reduce upper-level warm, moist biases
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 7- Test No GWD vs. GWD with SIGFAC=0 and SIGFAC=3
(3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 8 - Test momentum mixing + reduced water loading in convection
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 9 - Test No GWD vs. GWD with SIGFAC=0 to SIGFAC=6
(3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 10 - Test following changes to BMJ convection:
(1) EPSPR=10 (was 1.E-7)
(2) EPSPR=1000, increase depth of shallow convection to 400 mb at swap points
(3) Crude parameterization of downdrafts
(GWD, SIGFAC=3, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 11 - Test GWD with SIGFAC=0
vs. GWD with SIGFAC=0 and RIC=0.505 (in MYJSFC + PBL) rather than RIC=0.25
vs. Mountain blocking only (no GWD) with SIGFAC=0
(3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 12 - Test No CWM in MYJ SFC
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 13 - Test GFS PBL + SAS
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Experiment 14 - Numerous radiation tests involving RRTM LW, GSFC SW, Dudhia SW, and GFDL LW+SW
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)
Part of Experiment 14 - Reduced cloud emissivities for GFDL LW (in the Eta)
(GWD, SIGFAC=0, 3X terrain, modified advection)