Clara Bayley
| Department | Climate Physics IMPRS |
| Group | Tropical Cloud Observations |
| Position | Phd Candidate |
| phone | +49 40 41173-317 |
| clara.bayley@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 421 |
My Research
Cloud Microphysics and the Superdroplet Model
I'm a PhD student investigating (warm-)cloud microphysics and its implementation in climate models. In particular, I'm finding out what we can learn from the Superdroplet Model (SDM; Shima et al. 2009, 2020) about rain formation in tropical shallow cumulus. My focus is on SDM's representativeness and computational efficiency in comparison with other microphysics schemes. Currently I'm developing an SDM called 'Cleo' and using it to model simplified scenarios that test its convergence properties (with increasing number of superdroplets for example) and computational cost.
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I am the main developer of the CLEO code repository:
C. J. A. Bayley et al., CLEO: https://github.com/yoctoyotta1024/CLEO, (last accessed Jan. 2026)
I am first-author of the following under-review publications:
C. J. A. Bayley, T. Kölling, A. K. Naumann, R. Vogel and B. Stevens, ‘CLEO: The Fundamental Design for High Computational Performance of a New Superdroplet Model’, EGUsphere 2025, 1–33 (2025) https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4398/
C. J. A. Bayley, A. K. Naumann, F. Poydenot, R. Vogel, B. Stevens and S.-I. Shima, ‘CLEO: The Numerical Methods of a New Superdroplet Model including a Droplet Breakup Algorithm’, EGUsphere 2025, 1–26 (2025) https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4399/
C. J. A. Bayley∗ and N. Niebaum∗, F. Poydenot, A. K. Naumann, M. Sarkar and R. Vogel, ‘Constraining Rain Evaporation from Shallow-Clouds in the Trades using an Observation Based Superdroplet Model’, EGUsphere 2025, 1–30 (2025) *These authors contributed equally to this work. https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-5551/
I also contributed as second-author to this publication:
Segura, H. and Bayley, C. et al., ‘A Single Tropical Rainbelt in Global Storm-Resolving Models: The Role of Surface Heat Fluxes Over the Warm Pool’, en, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17, 10.1029/2024MS004897 (2025) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024MS004897
I am first-author of the following manuscript in preparation for publication:
C. J. A. Bayley, E. Ware and S. Arabas, ‘SDM as a Numerical Benchmark for Warm-Rain Processes? (in preparation)’, (2025)
Team
Department: Climate Physics
Group: Drivers of tropical circulation
Supervisors: Bjorn Stevens, Raphaela Vogel, Ann Kristin Naumann
Panel Chair: Dirk Notz
International Max Planck Research School: IMPRS-ESM
Contact
Email: clara.bayley@mpimet.mpg.de
GitHub: https://github.com/yoctoyotta1024
Phone: +49 40 41173 - 317
Office: Bundesstr. 53, Room 421
Address:
Clara Bayley
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundestraße 53
D-20146
Hamburg, Germany
