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1 Workshop on "Falling and blowing snow at the poles and high mountains" – June, 18 th  2018 Modeling and validating snowfall over Antarctica in the IPSL global climate model Jean-Baptiste Madeleine ([email protected]) and many colleagues working on the LMD/GCM

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Workshop on "Falling and blowing snow at the poles and high mountains" – June, 18th 2018

Modeling and validating snowfall over Antarctica in the IPSL global climate 

model

Jean­Baptiste Madeleine ([email protected])and many colleagues working on the LMD/GCM

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Who are we ?

Jean­BaptisteMadeleine

FrédéricHourdin

Jean­LouisDufresne

FlorentinLemonnier

ChristopheGenthon

 → climate modelers working in Paris on the representation of Antarctic processes 

in the LMD/GCM (the atmospheric component of the IPSL­CM climate model)

+ many collaborators who also work on our model, other models and on the observations (APRES3 project : Alexis Berne, Claudio Durán­Alarcón, Jacopo Grazioli,  Hubert Gallée, Gerhard Krinner, Chantal Claud, Etienne Vignon, Julien Beaumet,  Constantino Listowski, Richard Forbes, , Cécile Agosta, Martin Ménégoz...) 

IPSL Climate Modeling Center

IPSL stands for “Institut Pierre Simon Laplace” ­ it is a climate institute that brings together 9 laboratories in Paris; around 80 scientists and engineers work on developing and validating the different model components.

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Observing clouds and snowfallin coastal Antarctica

LIDAR

APRES3ANR 

project (French­Swiss !)

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The IPSL Climate Model

P,  , Tρ P,  , TρWind

~ 100 km

IPSL climate model

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Some aspects of the model we are working on for Antarctica :

● Cloud microphysics (mixed­phase clouds, supersaturation…)   J­B Madeleine, F. Lemonnier, C. Genthon→

● Solid precipitation   F. Lemonnier, J­B Madeleine, C. Genthon→

● Blowing snow   C. Genthon→

● Stable boundary layers   E. Vignon, F. Hourdin, C. Genthon→

● Cloud radiative effects   J­L Dufresne, J­B Madeleine→

● Long­term predictions   G. Krinner, F. Hourdin→

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Comparison to CloudSat retrievals

See Florentin Lemonnier’s poster n°8_AC­2_746 on Wednesday

[Lemonnier et al., in preparation]

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Model intercomparison 

See Alexis Berne’s talk n°449 and Florentin Lemonnier’s talk n°739 on Friday morning

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LIDAR measurement ofcloud­base height for GCM validation

Exemple of stratus clouds in February 2017(work of Alizée Chemison, 2018 undergrad student)

See Claudio Durán­Alarcón’s poster n°36_AC­1_738 tomorrow night

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APRES3 project :Planned activities 

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Summary● Validation of cloud amount and phase using Calipso­CloudSat 

and LIDAR observations

● Improved cloud microphysics

● Validation of snowfall rates using CloudSat retrievals (in 3D) and MRR data

● Better representation of snowfall in the LMD/GCM ; inclusion of blowing snow

Possible synergies● Define together a series of diagnostics to evaluate precipitation 

in CMIP6 models

● Share small datasets (for example annual means easily comparable to GCM results)