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 …

Diverse dispersion effects and parameterization of relative dispersion in urban fog in eastern China

Y Wang, C Lu, S Niu, J Lv, X Jia, X Xu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding cloud droplet relative dispersion is critical for mitigating the confounding
effect of aerosol‐cloud interactions in the simulation of the global climatic patterns. Diverse …

Impact of entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations on droplet size distributions in a cumulus cloud: An investigation using Lagrangian microphysics with a subgrid …

KK Chandrakar, WW Grabowski… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations critically impact cloud droplet size distributions
(DSDs) in cumulus clouds. This problem is investigated via a new sophisticated modeling …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence and microphysics in the Pi Chamber

T MacMillan, RA Shaw, WH Cantrell, DH Richter - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The Pi Chamber is a cloud chamber at Michigan Technological University that utilizes moist
turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard flow between two temperature-controlled, saturated plates to …

Large‐eddy simulations of a convection cloud chamber: Sensitivity to bin microphysics and advection

F Yang, M Ovchinnikov, S Thomas… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bin microphysics schemes are useful tools for cloud simulations and are often considered to
provide a benchmark for model intercomparison. However, they may experience issues with …

Designing a convection‐cloud chamber for collision‐coalescence using large‐eddy simulation with bin microphysics

A Wang, M Ovchinnikov, F Yang… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collisional growth of cloud droplets is an essential yet uncertain process for drizzle and
precipitation formation. To improve the quantitative understanding of this key component of …

Scaling of an atmospheric model to simulate turbulence and cloud microphysics in the Pi Chamber

S Thomas, M Ovchinnikov, F Yang… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pi Cloud Chamber offers a unique opportunity to study aerosol‐cloud
microphysics interactions in a steady‐state, turbulent environment. In this work, an …

Dependence of aerosol‐droplet partitioning on turbulence in a laboratory cloud

ASM Shawon, P Prabhakaran, G Kinney… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Activation is the first step in aerosol‐cloud interactions, which have been identified as one of
the principal uncertainties in Earth's climate system. Aerosol particles become cloud …

Search for microphysical signatures of stochastic condensation in marine boundary layer clouds using airborne digital holography

N Desai, S Glienke, J Fugal… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet growth due to stochastic condensation has been considered as one of the
mechanisms to cause broadening of cloud droplet size distributions and jump the bottleneck …

Reconciling contrasting relationships between relative dispersion and volume‐mean radius of cloud droplet size distributions

C Lu, Y Liu, SS Yum, J Chen, L Zhu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud droplet spectral relative dispersion is critical to parameterizations of cloud radiative
properties, warm‐rain initiation, and aerosol‐cloud interactions in models; however, there is …