Scripts for the publication "Incorporation of inline warm rain diagnostics into the COSP2 satellite simulator for process-oriented model evaluation"

Michibata et al. (2019), currently under peer-review for publication in Geoscientific Model Development, incorporated a diagnostic tool for warm rain microphysics into the CFMIP Observation Simulator Package (COSP; Bodas-Salcedo et al. 2011; Swales et al., 2018), designed to evaluate model representations of aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions at a fundamental process-level. The tool automatically generates two diagnostics related to warm rain microphysics during COSP execution in a host model. One is the contoured frequency by optical depth diagram (CFODD), which visualizes a cloud-to-rain microphysical vertical structure (Suzuki et al., 2015). The other diagnostic is a global map of warm rain fraction classified as non-precipitating clouds (< –15 dBZ_e), drizzling clouds (–15 < dBZ_e < 0), and precipitating clouds (0 < dBZ_e).

This repository contains the source code of COSP2 for the online diagnostics used in Michibata et al. (2019).