Acronyms
========



| [t]ll ABL & Atmospheric Boundary Layer
| AMIP & Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
| AMWG & Atmospheric Model Working Group
| BATS & Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
| CAM & Community Atmosphere Model
| CAPE & Convectively Available Potential Energy
| CCM & Community Climate Model
| CCN & Cloud Condensation Nucleus
| CCSM & Community Climate System Model
| CFC & Chloro-Fluoro Carbon
| CFL & Courant-Friedrichs-Levy Condition
| CGD & NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Division
| CGS & Centimeters/grams/seconds
| CKD & Clough-Kneizys-Davies
| CLM & Community Land Model
| CMS & (NCAR) Climate Modeling Section
| CSIM & Community Sea-Ice Model
| CWP & Condensed Water Path
| DAO & (NASA Goddard) Data Assimilation Office
| DAS & Data Assimilation System
| DISORT & DIScrete-Ordinate method Radiative Transfer
| ECMWF & European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts
| EOF & Empirical Orthogonal Function
| FASCODE & FASt atmosphere Signature Code
| FFSL & Flux-Form Semi-Lagrangian Transport
| FFT & Fast Fourier Transform
| FV/fv & Finite Volume
| GCM & General Circulation Model
| GENLN & General Line-by-line Atmospheric Transmittance and Radiance
  Model
| GEOS & Goddard Earth Observing System
| GFDL & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
| GSFC & Goddard Space Flight Center
| GMT & Greenwich Mean Time

| [t]ll HadISST & Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research SST
| HITRAN & High-resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database
| ICA & Independent Column Approximation
| IPCC & International Panel on Climate Change
| KNMI & Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
| LBL & Line by line
| LCL & Lifting condensation level
| LSM & Land Surface Model
| MATCH & Model for Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry
| M/R & Maximum/Random overlap
| NASA & National Space Administration
| NCAR & National Center for Atmospheric Research
| NCEP & National Center for Environmental Prediction
| NOAA & National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
| NWP & Numerical Weather Prediction
| OI & Optimal Interpolation
| OPAC & Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds
| PBL & Planetary Boundary Layer
| PCMDI & Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
| PPM & Piece-wise Parabolic Method
| RHS & Right Hand Side
| RMS & Root-mean Square
| SCMO & Sufficient Condition for Monotonicity
| SI & International System of Units
| SOM & Slab Ocean Model
| SST & Sea-surface temperature
| TOA & Top Of Atmosphere
| TOM & Top Of Model
| UCAR & University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
| WKB & Wentzel-Kramer-Brillouin approximation

Resolution and dycore-dependent parameters
==========================================

The following adjustable parameters differ between various finite volume
resolutions in the . Refer to the model code for parameters relevant to
alternative dynamical cores.

+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| Parameter                  | FV 1 deg   | FV 2 deg   | Description                                                     |    |
+============================+============+============+=================================================================+====+
| :math:`q_{ic,warm}`        | 2.e-4      | 2.e-4      | threshold for autoconversion of warm ice                        |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`q_{ic,cold}`        | 18.e-6     | 9.5e-6     | threshold for autoconversion of cold ice                        |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`k_{e,strat}`        | 5.e-6      | 5.e-6      | stratiform precipitation evaporation efficiency parameter       |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`RH_{\min}^{low}`    | .92        | .91        | minimum RH threshold for low stable clouds                      |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`RH_{\min}^{high}`   | .77        | .80        | minimum RH threshold for high stable clouds                     |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`k_{1,deep}`         | 0.10       | 0.10       | parameter for deep convection cloud fraction                    |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`p_{mid}`            | 750.e2     | 750.e2     | top of area defined to be mid-level cloud                       |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`c_{0,shallow}`      | 1.0e-4     | 1.0e-4     | shallow convection precip production efficiency parameter       |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`c_{0,deep}`         | 3.5E-3     | 3.5E-3     | deep convection precipitation production efficiency parameter   |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`k_{e,conv}`         | 1.0E-6     | 1.0E-6     | convective precipitation evaporation efficiency parameter       |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+
| :math:`v_i`                | 1.0        | 0.5        | Stokes ice sedimentation fall speed (m/s)                       |    |
+----------------------------+------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+----+

Table: [table:adjustableparameters]Resolution-dependent parameters

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