Low clouds play an important role in Earth’s energy budget, but they are poorly represented in global climate models (GCMs). The resolution of GCMs, which is on the order of 100 km in the horizontal, is too coarse to resolve the boundary layer turbulence and convection controlling the clouds. As a result, GCMs rely on parameterizations to represent these processes, and inadequacies in the parameterizations lead to biases in GCM-simulated clouds. To improve parameterizations by calibration with data, we want to harness data from large-eddy simulations (LES). LES directly resolve cloud dynamics and provide high-fidelity simulations in limited areas. However,…
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