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Iterative surrogate cloud fields. Victor Venema. Amplitude distribution. Amplitude (LWP, LWC, ) alone is already good: See Independent Pixel Approximation (IPA) Especially very important are the cloud free portions Together with power spectrum it also ‘defines’ the structure.
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Iterative surrogate cloud fields Victor Venema
Amplitude distribution • Amplitude (LWP, LWC, ) alone is already good: See Independent Pixel Approximation (IPA) • Especially very important are the cloud free portions • Together with power spectrum it also ‘defines’ the structure
Measured power spectrum • Fractal power spectrum? • Measured power spectrum • Scale breaks • Waves • … Satellite pictures: Eumetsat
Add an dimension • Assume isotropy • Rotate and scale power spectrum
Validation surrogate clouds • 3D LWC fields from LES modelling • Make surrogates from their statistics • Calculate radiative properties • Radiances • Irradiances • Actinic fluxes • Compare them
Surrogate stratocumulus Templates Surrogates
Templates Surrogates Surrogate cumulus - old
Validation cumulus - new • Developed a more accurate Stochastic IAAFT algorithm • Surrogates are copies of templates • In practise the bias is likely still there as you cannot measure the power spectrum that accurately
Scanning measurements • Structure maintaining interpolation • Anisotropic power spectrum • More samples • Better decorrelation
Scanning measurements • Scanning measurement • Amplitude distribution • 2D power spectrum • Force the measured values on the spiral • Measured: 16.5 %
Scanning measurements Surrogate with cloud mask
Conclusions • IAAFT algorithm • Full 3D structure • LWC height profile • Local forcing of measurements • Flexible • Dimensions • Measurements • Vary the statistics independently • Validated for Sc and sparse Cu • Cloud cover > 80%, <20% • 3D Cloud fields based on the BBC and BBC2 campaign on the BBC-server
Outlook • Improve convergence for broken clouds • Validate for broken clouds • Iterative wavelet surrogates • Constrained surrogates • Sebastián Gimeno García: 2D and 3D radiative transfer • Sebastian Schmidt: 3D surrogates from in situ measurements • 3D Surrogates from scanning measurement
Reviewer: “It is not clear why this technique is an improvement over simpler approaches.” IAAFT method Cumulus fields (Evans; structure of a binary mask) CALBAUTAIR (Schreirer and Schmidt) Shift cloud (Schmidt; Los and Duynkerke) 2D-2D Ice cloud (Liou et al.) tdMAP (A. Benassi, F. Szczap, et al.) Multi-fractal clouds Bounded Cascade and other fractal clouds Fourier method SITCOM (F. di Giuseppe; 2D structure) Ice clouds (R. Hogan, S. Kew; 2.5D structure) 3SPL 3SP 3_PL 2__L 2__L 2SP_ 2SP_ 2S__ 2S__ Comparison cloud generators
Bounded Cascade • It is a power spectral method just as the Fourier method • The amplitude distribution is fixed, ‘Log-normal like’ • Why take block functions? • At least for the Fourier method there is a large amount of literature • But Bounded Cascade clouds are fractals!!
Conclusions and outlook • Improve convergence • Cumulus fields are very intermittant • Smooth clear sky part • Structured cloudy part • Maybe iterative wavelet surrogates would converge bettter • Evolutionary search algorithm doesn‘t get easily stuck in local minima