Abstract. Recent developments and options in the GF (Grell and; Freitas, 2014; Freitas et al., 2018) convection parameterization are; presented. The parameterization has been expanded to a trimodal spectral; size to simulate three convection modes: shallow, congestus, and deep. In; contrast to usual entrainment and detrainment assumptions, we assume that beta; functions (BFs), commonly applied to represent probability density functions; (PDFs), can be used to characterize the vertical mass flux profiles for the; three modes and use the BFs to derive entrainment and detrainment rates. We; also added a new closure for nonequilibrium convection that improved the; simulation of the diurnal cycle of convection, with a better representation; of the transition from shallow to deep convection regimes over land. The; transport of chemical constituents (including wet deposition) can be treated; inside the GF scheme. The tracer transport is handled in flux form and is; mass-conserving. Finally, the cloud microphysics have been extended to; include the ice phase to simulate the conversion from liquid water to ice in; updrafts with resulting additional heat release and the melting from snow to; rain.;
