Hierarchical Testing for Improvement of Stochastic and Deterministic Physical Parameterizations

Kathryn Newman1, Xia Sun2, Ligia Bernardet3, Hannah Mary Christensen4, Judith Berner1, Lisa K Bengtsson5 and Michael B Ek6, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)U. Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA, OAR/GSL, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States