Radiative sensitivities for cloud structural properties that are unresolved by conventional GCMs

Abstract The Independent Column Approximation (ICA), a stochastic subgrid‐scale cloudy column generator, and a dataset produced by an array of two‐dimensional cloud system‐resolving models are used to estimate radiative sensitivities and uncertainties for parameters that describe the macrostructure of layered cloud at scales unresolved by conventional global climate models (GCMs). Three cloud structural parameters are considered: vertical …