| Model |
Investigators |
Dynamics |
Lateral Boundary Treatment |
Land Surface |
TWL* |
Vegetation Types |
Boundary Layer |
Explicit Moist Physics |
Cumulus Parameterization |
| CRCM |
D. Caya
S. Biner
R. Laprise |
Nonhydrostatic, Compressible |
9 points (Davies 1976);
spectral nudging of horizontal wind. |
CLASS |
3/3 |
21 vegetation classes |
Local K, gradient Richardson number formulation |
Removal of supersaturation |
Mass flux |
| PRECIS |
R. Jones
E. Buonomo
W. Moufouma-Okia |
Hydrostatic, Incompressible |
4 points (Davies and Turner 1977) |
MOSES |
4/4 |
53 classes
(Wilson and Henderson-Sellers 1985) |
First order turbulent mixing |
Prognostic cloud liquid and ice; liquid potential temperature |
Mass flux, including downdraft |
| MM5 |
R. Arritt
W. Gutowski
E. Takle
C. Anderson
R. Leung
Y. Qian |
Nonhydrostatic, Compressible |
4 points (linear relaxation) |
NOAH |
4/4 |
16 classes from USGS SiB model |
Hong-Pan (MRF) countergradient, non-local K |
Dudhia simple ice |
Kain-Fritsch2 mass flux |
| RegCM3 |
L. Sloan
J. Bell
J. Pal |
Hydrostatic, Compressible |
12 points (exponential relaxation) |
BATS |
1/3 |
19 classes |
Non-local K, countergradient flux |
SUBEX, prognostic cloud water |
Grell with Fritsch-Chappell closure |
| ECPC RSM |
J. Roads
A. Nunes |
Hydrostatic, Incompressible |
Perturbations relaxed at boundaries; spectral filter |
NOAH |
4/4 |
13 classes |
Hong-Pan non-local K |
Removal of supersaturation |
Relaxed Arawaka-Schubert |
| WRF |
R. Leung
B. Kuo
J. Done |
Nonhydrostatic, Compressible |
15 grid points (exponential relaxation) |
NOAH |
4/4 |
24 classes from USGS |
Yonsei Univ. (explicit entrainment) |
Prognostic cloud liquid and ice, rain, snow |
Kain-Fritsch2 mass flux |
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