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DOI | 10.1029/2019JD031078 |
Parameterization of Entrainment Rate and Mass Flux in Continental Cumulus Clouds: Inference From Large Eddy Simulation | |
Bera, Sudarsan1,2; Prabha, Thara, V1 | |
2019-12-05 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
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ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2019 |
文章类型 | Article;Early Access |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | India |
英文摘要 | Large eddy simulation with contrasting environmental humidity is used to study entrainment and detrainment rates and convective mass flux during the development stages of continental deep cumulus clouds. The cumulus clouds studied here are deeper than marine shallow cumulus or stratocumulus in the published literature. The main objective of the study is to parameterize the entrainment and detrainment rates in monsoon clouds during the break monsoon periods over land, useful for the large-scale atmospheric models. A systematic decrease in cloud liquid water path is noted in drier environments as clouds become shallower due to the reduction of positive buoyancy in the cloud core. Updraft and downdraft velocities in the subcloud layers are strengthened in the drier environments, which are found to affect in-cloud updraft strength. A most important finding of the present study is the effect of environmental humidity on the entrainment (and detrainment) rates and the convective mass flux. Many previous studies on this topic reported opposite results. The present study found that decreasing environmental humidity leads to a decrease in both the entrainment rate and the convective mass flux but an increase in the detrainment rate. The relationship of the entrainment parameters with the environmental relative humidity can be used for parameterization in the large-scale models. The physical mechanism responsible for such response is identified as the strengthening of the subcloud updrafts compensated by the enhanced downdraft into the boundary layer in the drier environments, and this mechanism subsequently led to higher in-cloud updraft velocity, resulting in lower entrainment rate. |
英文关键词 | Entrainment detrainment mass-flux LES Monsoon clouds CAIPEEX |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000500664500001 |
WOS关键词 | MOIST CONVECTION ; UNIFIED REPRESENTATION ; MOMENTUM TRANSPORT ; WARM CLOUDS ; MODEL ; MICROPHYSICS ; DETRAINMENT ; SENSITIVITY ; IMPACT ; SCHEME |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/225852 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
作者单位 | 1.Indian Inst Trop Meteorol, Pune, Maharashtra, India; 2.Savitribai Phule Pune Univ, Pune, Maharashtra, India |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bera, Sudarsan,Prabha, Thara, V. Parameterization of Entrainment Rate and Mass Flux in Continental Cumulus Clouds: Inference From Large Eddy Simulation[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2019. |
APA | Bera, Sudarsan,&Prabha, Thara, V.(2019).Parameterization of Entrainment Rate and Mass Flux in Continental Cumulus Clouds: Inference From Large Eddy Simulation.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES. |
MLA | Bera, Sudarsan,et al."Parameterization of Entrainment Rate and Mass Flux in Continental Cumulus Clouds: Inference From Large Eddy Simulation".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES (2019). |
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