Single interval longwave radiation scheme based on the net exchanged rate decomposition with bracketing
Geleyn, Jean-François ; Ma¨ek, J. ; Bro¸ková, R. ; Kuma, P. ; Degrauwe, D. ; Hello, G. ; Pristov, N.
Année de publication
2017
<span style="color:#800080;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Abstract</font></font></span></h2><p align="justify"><span style="color:#800080;">The main obstacle to an efficient calculation of the longwave radiative transfer is the existence of multiple radiative sources, each with its own emission spectrum. The presented work overcomes this problem by combining the full spectrum broadband approach with the net exchanged rate decomposition. The idea is worked out to suite the needs of numerical weather prediction, where the most costly contribution representing the sum of internal exchanges is interpolated between cheap minimum and maximum estimates, while exchange with surface and dominant cooling to space contributions are calculated accurately. The broadband approach must address the additional problems related to the spectral integration, and many ideas developed previously for the solar spectrum are reused. Specific issues appear, the dependence of the broadband gaseous transmissions on the temperature of emitting body being the most important one. The thermal spectrum brings also some simplifications - aerosols, clouds and the Earth's surface can be safely treated as grey bodies. The optical saturation of gaseous absorption remains the main complication, and the non-random spectral overlaps between gases become much more significant than in the solar spectrum. The broadband character of the proposed scheme enables the use of an unreduced spatial resolution with an intermittent update of gaseous transmissions and interpolation weights, thus ensuring a full response of the longwave radiation to the rapidly varying cloudiness and temperature fields. This is in contrast to the mainstream strategy, where very accurate and expensive radiative transfer calculations are done infrequently, often with reduced spatial resolution. The approach proposed here provides a much better balance between errors coming from the radiation scheme itself and from the intermittency strategy. The key achievement ensuring a good scalability of the scheme is a computational cost essentially linear in the number of layers, with straightforward inclusion of scattering as an additional bonus.</span></p>
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