NAM_PARAMn

It contains the different types of parameterizations used by the model n. They are included in the declarative module MODD_PARAMn.

NAM_PARAMn content

Fortran name

Fortran type

Default value

CTURB

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CRAD

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CCLOUD

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CDCONV

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CSCONV

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CELEC

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

CACTCCN

CHARACTER(LEN=4)

‘NONE’

  • CTURB : type of turbulence scheme used to parameterize the transfers from unresolved scales to resolved scales.

    • ‘NONE’ : no turbulence scheme.

    • ‘TKEL’ : turbulence scheme with a one and a half order closure (i.e. prognostic turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and diagnostic mixing length). Specific options have to be set in NAM_TURBn.

  • CRAD : type of radiative transfer scheme used to parameterize the effects of the solar and infrared radiations.

    • ‘NONE’ : then the downward surface fluxes are set to zero

    • ‘TOPA’ : the solar flux is equal to the one at TOP of Atmosphere. The infra-red flux is equal to 300 \({\rm W.m}^{-2}\).

    • ‘FIXE’ : then the daily evolutions of the downward surface fluxes are prescribed. The temporal evolution is done in the routine PHYS_PARAMn by fixing the hourly value of the infrared and solar fluxes and can be modified for personal application.

    • ‘ECMW’ : the ECMWF radiation scheme code is used. Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_RADn.

    • ‘ECRA’ : the ECRAD radiation scheme code is used. Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_RADn and NAM_PARAM_ECRADn.

  • CCLOUD : type of the microphysical scheme used to parameterize the different water phases’ transformations.

    • ‘NONE’ no microphysical scheme is used. You can still use water vapor if you want (LUSERV= TRUE or FALSE)

    • ‘REVE’ only the saturation adjustment is used to create cloud water. This liquid water is never transformed in rain water.

    • ‘KESS’ a warm Kessler microphysical scheme is used. It allows transformations between the 3 classes of water: vapor, cloud water and rain.

    • ‘C2R2’ a 2-moment warm microphysical scheme according to Cohard and Pinty (2000). Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_C2R2.

    • ‘KHKO’ a 2-moment warm microphysical scheme for LES of Stratocumulus according to Khairoudinov and Kogan (2000). Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_C2R2.

    • ‘ICE3’ a mixed microphysical scheme including ice, snow, and graupel (6 classes of hydrometeors).

    • ‘LIMA’ a mixed 2-moment microphysical scheme (6 classes of hydrometeors ). Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_LIMA.

    • ‘ICE4’ same as ICE3 but with hail (7 classes of hydrometeors).

  • CDCONV : type of deep convection scheme used to parameterize the effects of unresolved convective clouds.

    • ‘NONE’ : no convection scheme.

    • ‘KAFR’ : Kain-Fritsch-Bechtold scheme. Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_KAFRn.

  • CSCONV : type of shallow convection scheme used to parameterize the effects of unresolved shallow convective clouds.

    • ‘NONE’ : no convection scheme.

    • ‘KAFR’ : Kain-Fritsch-Bechtold scheme. Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_KAFRn.

    • ‘EDKF’ : Eddy-Diffusivity-Kain-Fritsch scheme (according to Pergaud et al., 2008). Can only be used with CTURB=’TKEL’. Specific options have to be set in NAM_PARAM_MFSHALLn.

  • CELEC : type of electricity-lightning scheme used to parameterize electrification of hydrometeors

    • ‘NONE’ : no electricity-lightning scheme.

    • ‘ELE3’ : original scheme CELLS based on duplication of microphysics ICE3 code. Works only with NAM_PARAM_ICEn LRED=F, LSNOW_T=F. Specific options have to be set in NAM_ELEC.

    • ‘ELE4’ : externalization and modernization of ELE3 with possibility to use with LIMA and ICE3 with time-splitting. Specific options have to be set in NAM_ELEC.

Note

With LIMA, two configurations are possible in NAM_PARAM_LIMA:

  • LPTSPLIT=T, NMOM_C=NMOM_R=NMOM_I=2, NMOM_S=NMOM_G=1, NMOM_H=0, and LSNOW_T=F

  • LPTSPLIT=T, NMOM_C=NMOM_R=NMOM_I=NMOM_S=NMOM_G=2, NMOM_H=0, and LSNOW_T=F.

With ICE3, set LRED=T and LSNOW_T=F in NAM_PARAM_ICEn.

  • CACTCCN : type of CCN activation scheme

    • ‘NONE’ : no CCN activation scheme.