Development of Generalized Parameterization of Diabatic Heating for Use in Weather and Climate Models

A new approach to parameterize physical processes with weather and climate models is presented, with a specific example for diabatic heating processes. Traditionally diabatic processes within these models are parameterized separately in terms of vertical (1-D) representations of short- and longwave radiative flux divergences, stable and convective clouds and precipitation, and turbulent flux divergence. However, we propose a methodology wher