Evaluation of a Cumulus Scheme in the FV3-LAM and of Experimental MPAS Forecasts for the Summer 2025 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment
A convection-allowing model (CAM) ensemble was run during the NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed’s 2025 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment. One of the goals was to evaluate the role and effects of a cumulus scheme on precipitation forecasting in CAMs, where four members of the ensemble have a scale-aware simpl...