Introduction

Welcome to the scientific documentation for the parameterizations available in the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v6.0.0 and the suites that can be configured using them.

The CCPP-Physics (available through https://github.com/NCAR/ccpp-physics/) is envisioned to contain parameterizations used in the Unified Forecast System (UFS) applications for weather through seasonal prediction timescales, encompassing the current operational GFS schemes, as well as developmental schemes under consideration for upcoming operational implementations. The UFS can be configured for multiple applications, including the UFS Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application (available through https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/), which targets predictions of atmospheric behavior on a limited spatial domain and on time scales from less than an hour out to several days, and the UFS Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Application (available through https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-mrweather-app/), which targets predictions of global atmospheric behavior out to about two weeks.

The CCPP parameterizations are aggregated in suites by the host models. In this release, the CCPP Single Column Model (SCM), developed by the Development Testbed Center (DTC), supports suites:

• GFS_v16 Suite
• GFS_v17_p8 Suite
• HRRR Suite
• RRFS_v1beta Suite
• WoFS_v0 Suite
• RAP Suite

while the UFS Short-Range Weather Application 2.0 supports suites GFS_v16 Suite, HRRR Suite, RRFS_v1beta Suite and WoFS_v0 Suite.

New schemes and capability highlights in this release:

• NSSL 2-moment Cloud Microphysics Scheme
• GFS Unified UGWP Scheme and GSL Drag Suite Scheme
• MYNN Surface Layer Scheme
• Cellular Automata Stochastic Convective Organization Scheme
• Stochastically-Perturbed Parameterizations (SPP)

In this website you will find documentation on various aspects of each parameterization, including a high-level overview of its function, the input/output argument list, and a description of the algorithm. More details about this and other CCPP releases may be found on the CCPP website hosted by DTC.

Acknowledgements

CCPP team would like to express our deepest gratitude for UFS physics developers' contribution to the development of CCPP-Physics.
We would also like to give special thanks to:

• NOAA Global Systems Laboratory: Hannah Barnes, Jeff Beck, Georg Grell, Joseph Olson, Tanya Smirnova, Michael Toy
• NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory: Jian-Wen Bao, Lisa Bengtsson, Song-You Hong
• NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory: Ted Mansell
• NOAA Environmental Modeling Center: Jongil Han, Qingfu Liu, Ruiyu Sun
• Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.: Michael Iacono
• Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation: Greg Thompson
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Valery Yudin

as a whole for their support and contribution for this CCPP scientific documentation (SciDoc).

CCPP SciDoc Team: Man Zhang, Ligia Bernardet, Grant Firl, Dom Heinzeller, and Weiwei Li
Developmental Testbed Center