Challenges for cloud modeling in the context of aerosol - Cloud - Precipitation interactions

The International Cloud Modeling Workshop (CMW) was held at United Kingdom from 22-26 July 2016. More than 40 experts on cloud modeling convened to discuss key advances in the representation of clouds in numerical models and future efforts to further improve the predictability of clouds and precipitation. Based on the numerous presentations and extensive discussion in the plenary sessions, the results revealed that The cloud modeling community is moving away from solely focusing on only detailed microphysi­cal studies with idealized frameworks and toward augmenting these with a more systemwide focus by examining the coupling between microphysics and dynamics. To advance the parameterization of ice-phase microphysics (in bulk and bin schemes), the modeling community should further explore the paradigm of free ice-phase categories. There is a need to better integrate advances in modeling techniques and detailed case studies with observational campaigns, which will help constrain numerical models.