Parameterization and explicit modeling of cloud microphysics: Approaches, challenges, and future directions

Y Liu, MK Yau, S Shima, C Lu, S Chen - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2023 - Springer
Cloud microphysical processes occur at the smallest end of scales among cloud-related
processes and thus must be parameterized not only in large-scale global circulation models …

Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics

H Morrison, M van Lier‐Walqui… - Journal of advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

The retrieval of drop size distribution parameters using a dual-polarimetric radar

GW Lee, V Bringi, M Thurai - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The raindrop size distribution (DSD) is vital for applications such as quantitative precipitation
estimation, understanding microphysical processes, and validation/improvement of two …

Fingerprints of a riming event on cloud radar Doppler spectra: observations and modeling

H Kalesse, W Szyrmer, S Kneifel… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Radar Doppler spectra measurements are exploited to study a riming event when
precipitating ice from a seeder cloud sediment through a supercooled liquid water (SLW) …

[HTML][HTML] Application of the generalized gamma model to represent the full rain drop size distribution spectra

M Thurai, VN Bringi - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Application of the Generalized Gamma Model to Represent the Full Rain Drop Size Distribution
Spectra in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 57 Issue 5 (2018) Jump to …

Three‐moment representation of rain in a bulk microphysics model

M Paukert, J Fan, PJ Rasch, H Morrison… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A bulk three‐moment representation for rain microphysics is developed and implemented in
the Predicted Particle Properties (P3) microphysics scheme. In addition, a new …

Measurements and modeling of the full rain drop size distribution

M Thurai, V Bringi, PN Gatlin, WA Petersen, MT Wingo - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
The raindrop size distribution (DSD) is fundamental for quantitative precipitation estimation
(QPE) and in numerical modeling of microphysical processes. Conventional disdrometers …

Raindrop size distribution: Fitting performance of common theoretical models

E Adirosi, E Volpi, F Lombardo, L Baldini - Advances in Water Resources, 2016 - Elsevier
Modelling raindrop size distribution (DSD) is a fundamental issue to connect remote sensing
observations with reliable precipitation products for hydrological applications. To date …

[HTML][HTML] A general N-moment normalization method for deriving raindrop size distribution scaling relationships

H Morrison, MR Kumjian, CP Martinkus… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
A General N-Moment Normalization Method for Deriving Raindrop Size Distribution Scaling
Relationships in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 58 Issue 2 (2019) …

Cloud radar Doppler spectra in drizzling stratiform clouds: 2. Observations and microphysical modeling of drizzle evolution

P Kollias, W Szyrmer, J Rémillard… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In part I, the influence of cloud microphysics and dynamics on the shape of cloud radar
Doppler spectra in warm stratiform clouds was discussed. The traditional analysis of radar …