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Although the principles of the mass flux approach to convection were formulated in the 1970s and formed the basis for the well known “Arakawa-Schubert” scheme (Arakawa and Schubert’) it has only been recently that such schemes have been used in many GCMs due to their expense compared to simpler schemes (moist convective adjustment and Kuo-type schemes). The approach has a stronger physical basis than these earlier methods and provides an understanding of how convection affects the large-scale atmosphere. It also allows more physically based microphysical treatments to be employed and vertical transports of tracers by convection to be estimated, of importance when considering the impact that aerosols have upon climate.
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Gregory, D. (1997). The Mass Flux Approach to the Parametrization of Deep Convection. In: Smith, R.K. (eds) The Physics and Parameterization of Moist Atmospheric Convection. NATO ASI Series, vol 505. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8828-7_12
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