Welcome to AMP

 

Gettelman has been leading a major collaborative development effort for a new microphysics parameterization for CAM. The goal of this effort is to develop an advanced microphysics package which can represent the size of cloud drops, and how cloud drops are affected by the distribution of aerosols. The ultimate goal is to quantify aerosol indirect effects in CAM and CCSM. This work dovetails with other studies in ACD, MMM and CGD of cloud microphysics, both in observations and in models. The current project is a collaboration between MMM, CGD, ACD and ASP. An important component of the broader activity is the development of better satellite data sets of cloud microphysical properties for comparing the CAM simulations to observations.