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On the Equivalence of Two Schemes for Convective Momentum Transport

David M. Romps Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

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01 Dec 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-068.1
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3491–3500
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Abstract

The Gregory–Kershaw–Inness (GKI) parameterization of convective momentum transport, which has a tunable parameter C, is shown to be identical to a parameterization with no pressure gradient force and a mass flux smaller by a factor of 1 − C. Using cloud-resolving simulations, the transilient matrix for momentum is diagnosed for deep convection in radiative–convective equilibrium. Using this transilient matrix, it is shown that the GKI scheme underestimates the compensating subsidence of momentum by a factor of 1 − C, as predicted. This result is confirmed using a large-eddy simulation.

Corresponding author address: David M. Romps, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 377 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. E-mail: romps@berkeley.edu

Abstract

The Gregory–Kershaw–Inness (GKI) parameterization of convective momentum transport, which has a tunable parameter C, is shown to be identical to a parameterization with no pressure gradient force and a mass flux smaller by a factor of 1 − C. Using cloud-resolving simulations, the transilient matrix for momentum is diagnosed for deep convection in radiative–convective equilibrium. Using this transilient matrix, it is shown that the GKI scheme underestimates the compensating subsidence of momentum by a factor of 1 − C, as predicted. This result is confirmed using a large-eddy simulation.

Corresponding author address: David M. Romps, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 377 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. E-mail: romps@berkeley.edu
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