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No, CM1 does not precisely conserve mass. However, because the pressure equation in CM1 retains all terms, it’s mass errors are several orders of magnitude smaller than those from other cloud models that integrate pressure equations (e.g., MM5, ARPS, RAMS). See Bryan and Fritsch (2002, MWR, pg 2917) for more information.
