THE THREE-LEVEL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL: FORMULATION AND RESULTS

The "climate draft" often occurs in the coupling process of the atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) and oceanic general circulation model (OGCM).One of the main methods to overcome the "climate draft" is to simulate the flow and temperature fields in the low-layer correctly.Therefore we designed a three-level AGCM including a planetary boundary layer (PBL) and have run it seven model years to do climate simulation.The results show that the simulated lower level air flow,surface air temperature and sea-level pressure in January and July,approximate to the climate average fields,especially in Asian monsoon area.The simulated upper level flow and geopotential height are also in better agreement with the observed fields.Moreover,the two westerly jets over the northern and southern sides of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau in winter,the disappearance of its southern subtropical jet during the seasonal transition from spring to summer,the establishment of the two easterly jets near the equator and over the subtropical region during the seasonal transition,are also simulated well.In the mainland of China,the seasonal abrupt shift of the rainfall belt,such as the Meiyu belt in South China during April to May,which jumps to the Changjiang River region in June,again jumps back to the north China in July,and rapidly withdraws to the south in August,are simulated very well.Now we are coupling this model to a global six-level OGCM and nesting a fine mesh (1°×1.25°)regional climate model over China area with it.