Overview of Case 3 for WG 4

• Description of Phase I

 
• Subcases A, B, and C

 
• The specified radiative heating profile

 
• ECMWF mean profiles
• ECMWF time series
• Atmospheric radiative heating rates: ECMWF vs VarAnal
• Precipitation rates: ECMWF vs VarAnal

 
• Large-scale advective forcing

 
• Surface fluxes

 
• Observed T, q, u, v

 
• Can we evaluate the accuracy of the forcing?

 
• Description of Phase II

 
• Phase II plan

 
• Intercomparison of SCM & CRM results: Temperature and water vapor

 
• Intercomparison of SCM & CRM results: Clouds
  
  
• http://www.arm.gov/docs/scm/
  
  
• http://dev.www.arm.gov/docs/scm/guests/