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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling of cloud microphysics: Can we do better?

WW Grabowski, H Morrison, SI Shima… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Representation of cloud microphysics is a key aspect of simulating clouds. From the
early days of cloud modeling, numerical models have relied on an Eulerian approach for all …

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 …

Rainfall microphysics

GM McFarquhar - Rainfall, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the small-scale processes that occur within clouds leading to the
production of rainfall is required to determine how the release or absorption of latent heat …

Predicting the morphology of ice particles in deep convection using the super-droplet method: Development and evaluation of SCALE-SDM 0.2. 5-2.2. 0,-2.2. 1, and …

S Shima, Y Sato, A Hashimoto… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
The super-droplet method (SDM) is a particle-based numerical scheme that enables
accurate cloud microphysics simulation with lower computational demand than multi …

Cloud microphysical implications for marine cloud brightening: The importance of the seeded particle size distribution

F Hoffmann, G Feingold - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a viable way to counteract global
warming by artificially increasing the albedo and lifetime of clouds via deliberate seeding of …

Enhancements in cloud condensation nuclei activity from turbulent fluctuations in supersaturation

JC Anderson, P Beeler, M Ovchinnikov… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of aerosols on the properties of clouds is a large source of uncertainty in
predictions of weather and climate. These aerosol‐cloud interactions depend critically on …

Influences of an entrainment–mixing parameterization on numerical simulations of cumulus and stratocumulus clouds

X Xu, C Lu, Y Liu, S Luo, X Zhou, S Endo… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Different entrainment–mixing processes can occur in clouds; however, a homogeneous
mixing mechanism is often implicitly assumed in most commonly used microphysics …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying albedo susceptibility biases in shallow clouds

G Feingold, T Goren… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The evaluation of radiative forcing associated with aerosol–cloud interactions remains a
significant source of uncertainty in future climate projections. The problem is confounded by …