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Thompson microphysics is less stable than GFDDL MP at long time steps used by the UFS, not only but in particular due to the missing fast physics calls in the FV3 dycore.
A duct tape solution thus far was to apply a tendency limiter that put a cap on the heating rates coming out of Thompson MP. This is unphysical and has in the past, when using too restrictive values, inhibited the formation of hurricanes etc.
Solution
One possible solution is to leverage the subcycling capability in CCPP to call Thompson MP with a higher frequency (i.e. shorter time step) than the rest of the physics. This should allow us to remove the tendency limiter and let the microphysics do its job as it should.
Alternatives
Alternative solutions are currently explored such as constraining Thompson MP in a different way than the basic tendency limiter.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
Description
Thompson microphysics is less stable than GFDDL MP at long time steps used by the UFS, not only but in particular due to the missing fast physics calls in the FV3 dycore.
A duct tape solution thus far was to apply a tendency limiter that put a cap on the heating rates coming out of Thompson MP. This is unphysical and has in the past, when using too restrictive values, inhibited the formation of hurricanes etc.
Solution
One possible solution is to leverage the subcycling capability in CCPP to call Thompson MP with a higher frequency (i.e. shorter time step) than the rest of the physics. This should allow us to remove the tendency limiter and let the microphysics do its job as it should.
Alternatives
Alternative solutions are currently explored such as constraining Thompson MP in a different way than the basic tendency limiter.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: