


By resolving the transient dynamics of convective storms in the tropics, global storm-resolving models remove the need to parameterize tropical deep convection, providing a fundamentally more sound representation of the climate system and a more natural link to commensurately high-resolution data from satellite-borne sensors.

Eight of these employed a tiling of the sphere that was uniformly less than 5 km. Nine models submitted simulation output for a 40-day (1 August–10 September 2016) intercomparison period. A review of the experimental protocol and motivation for DYAMOND, the first intercomparison project of global storm-resolving models, is presented.
