Modeling Deep Convection and Chemistry and their Roles in the Tropical Tropopause Layer Workshop in Victoria, BC June 2006 SPARC, GEWEX, IGAC Barth, McFarlane With contributions from: Petch, Birner, Grabowski Deep convection/Chemistry and their Roles in the Tropical Tropopause Layer Chemistry in Tropical Tropopause Layer Ozone in the UTLS region climate change UV radiation reaching the Earths surface Halogen chemistry June 2006 Workshop Wish List Outcomes Information sharing (newsletters, web page with talks and other information) Special sessions at meetings (e.g. SPARC 2008 GA, IGAC 2008, AGU and EGU special sessions) Modeling activities Re-run a previous GCSS case (e.g. TOGA-COARE) TWP-ICE intercomparison Establish working group composed of people from each of the communities (SPARC, GEWEX, IGAC) Develop a framework for collaborative research and plan future activities TWP-ICE intercomparison (GEWEX activity primarily) Ann Fridlind is leading an intercomparison of CRMs, SCMs, LAMs, NWP models Took suggestions from 2006 workshop Raised the model top Included tracers Intercomparison is progressing nicely No one has analyzed tracer output yet Other Activities GABRIEL, HIBISCUS, TROCCINOX, SCOUT-O3, ACTIVE (Hector) storms being analyzed recent papers AMMA results recent papers TC4-Costa Rica CRM studies of role of overshooting convection in TTL dehydration (e.g. Jensen et al, 2007) Fueglistaler et al (2009) review paper Analyses of TTL features in GCM Simulations (e.g. Gettelman&Birner, 2007, Gettelman et al, 2008, Birner, 2009) do not know of any coordinated modeling activities, but AMMA may provide the next GEWEX intercomparison AMMA intercomparison would likely be good in terms of having measured chemical species T. Birner (2009) submitted Analysis of the tropical tropopause layer using the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedoral Atmospheric Model (NICAM) IGAC-SPARC (Kyoto Univ.) OCT. 25, 2009 Hiroyasu Kubokawa, Masatomo Fujiwara (ES, Hokkaido Univ.) Tomoe Nasuno (RIGC, JAMSTEC) Masaki Satoh (CCSR Tokyo Univ./ RIGC,JAMSTEC) IGAC-SPARC Workshop poster P-18 H. Kubokawa et al., JGR, in press Follow - on from: ( Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model ) Explicit vertical wind calculation; No cumulus parameterization. Cloud microphysical scheme (Grabowski, 1998) horizontal spacing : 3.5 km, 7 km, 14 km vertical spacing : 1.4 km in the upper troposphere. Dec. 2006, MJO simulation Initial condition : NCEP Tropospheric Analyses data 14 km, 7km ; 15 Dec. 2006, 0000UTC 32 days (per 6 hr. snapshot) 3.5 km ; 25 Dec. 2006, 0000UTC 7 days (per 90 min. 90min averaged) In this presentation, 7 km grid data is only used. without using the nudge technique during the integration. SST (weekly mean data from Reynolds SST) In this presentation, we discuss the regional characteristics of deep convection, which may affect the transport into the TTL and the variations of temperature and water vapor in the TTL. Western Pacific tropopause 16 km TTL bottom boundary CPC-IR [K] south coast of Java, north area of Australia (tropical storm Isovel, 29 Dec. 2006) Fudeyasu et al ITCZ (westward propagating clouds with 500 km scale in horizontal) Overshooting frequency Future Activities Idealized modeling case 1000s kms 100s kms x < 5 km Sensitivity of TTL structure (moisture) to cloud microphysics Evaluate single column models (SCM) Evaluate role of convective waves on T and qv structure Future Activities Challenge: having observations of large-scale dynamics, cloud microphysics AND chemistry Future Field Campaigns PACE (NASA) possibly sample the Asian Monsoon Are there others? tropical min transport to stratosphere via monsoon ACE-FTS HCN (JJA) Courtesy Mijeong Park Important to Support Tropical Studies climate change Rising of the Tropopause documented Tropics are/were broadening Impacts Cloud formation, adsorption of HNO 3, radiation Precipitation Regional climate Possible coupled effects Courtesy S. Davis via A. Gettelman, UTLS Workshop, Boulder, CO, Oct 2009 TPP=20 mb Summary Many activities have been done during the past 3 years by each of the communities The GEWEX community has implemented suggestions from the 2006 workshop (higher model top, tracers in CRMs) Large-domain, cloud-resolving-scale simulations are beginning but at early stages - none with tracers and/or chemistry (Poster P-18) Suggestions of promoting an idealized case, but still no chemistry Would an AMMA case meet needs of large-scale dynamics, cloud physics and chemistry? Another TTL-UTLS workshop would bring people together again maybe this time effort should be placed on beginning such a case study