-- PhilRasch - 10 Apr 2008 Here are links to a few papers that are relevant to Phil Rasch's lecture on Clouds. I dont expect you to have read and understood every aspect of each of these papers. I will cover bits of material from these and other papers during the lecture and these papers provide a start for gaining more information on the topic of clouds in climate models.

• jclim_rasch_kristjansson.pdf: Rasch & Kristjansson Stratiform Cloud Parameterization Paper

• arakawa_review_conv_param_2004.pdf: Arakawa 2004 Review of Convection Schemes.
  There is a very interesting article by Brian Mapes that provides a contrast to the quasi-equilibrium
  interpretation that pervades Arakawa's way of thinking that can be found in the following book.
  
  

• lawerenceEtal.tracer.trnspt.pdf: Lawrence and Rasch Tracer Transport by Convection. This paper discusses some of the subtleties in formulations of convection and how it influences tracer transport.

• Bony_etal_feedbacks.pdf: The role of clouds in climate change feedback processes is discussed in this paper. It provides a nice example of why clouds matter in studying climate change

• Activation_control.pdf:Mapes, B.E., 1997: Equilibrium vs. activation controls on large-scale variations of tropical deep convection . pp.321-358 in The physics and parameterization of moist convection, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 321-358. The link to the PDF is not working but I will try to get it directly from Mapes.