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Summary

The new feature is tested with fully coupled E3SM simulation for both PI-control and historical layoutdeveloped based on a series of offline tests regarding snow/seaice radiative transfer models. For more details, please see the paper:

Dang, C., Zender, C. S., and Flanner, M. G.: Inter-comparison and improvement of 2-stream shortwave radiative transfer models for unified treatment of cryospheric surfaces in ESMs, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-22, in review, 2019.


Verification Test 1

Verification Test 1: Inter-comparison of two-stream shortwave radiative transfer models in E3SM

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Figure 12 of Dang et al., 2019: Error in semi-infinite snow albedo computed using dEdd-AD before (top row) and after (bottom row) incorporating corrections for near-IR albedo, for different solar zenith angles and snow grain radii.

Reference

Dang, C., Zender, C. S., and Flanner, M. G.: Inter-comparison and improvement of 2-stream shortwave radiative transfer models for unified treatment of cryospheric surfaces in ESMs, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-22, in review, 2019.