标题：Continuous Structural Parameterization: A Proposed Method for Representing Different Model Parameterizations Within One Structure Demonstrated for Atmospheric Convection
期刊名称：Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
电子版ISSN：1942-2466
出版年度：2020
卷号：12
期号：8
页码：1-21
DOI：10.1029/2020MS002085
出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
摘要：Continuous structural parameterization (CSP) is a proposed method for approximating
different numerical model parameterizations of the same process as functions of the same grid‐scale
variables. This allows systematic comparison of parameterizations with each other and observations or
resolved simulations of the same process. Using the example of two convection schemes running in the Met
Office Unified Model (UM), we show that a CSP is able to capture concisely the broad behavior of the two
schemes, and differences between the parameterizations and resolved convection simulated by a high
resolution simulation. When the original convection schemes are replaced with their CSP emulators within
the UM, basic features of the original model climate and some features of climate change are reproduced,
demonstrating that CSP can capture much of the important behavior of the schemes. Our results open the
possibility that future work will estimate uncertainty in model projections of climate change from estimates
of uncertainty in simulation of the relevant physical processes.
