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DOI | 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0203.1 |
Studying Scale Dependency of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions Using Multiscale Cloud Formulations | |
Glotfelty, Timothy; Alapaty, Kiran; He, Jian; Hawbecker, Patrick; Song, Xiaoliang; Zhang, Guang | |
2020-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
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出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | The Weather Research and Forecasting Model with Aerosol–Cloud Interactions (WRF-ACI) configuration is used to investigate the scale dependency of aerosol–cloud interactions (ACI) across the “gray zone” scales for grid-scale and subgrid-scale clouds. The impacts of ACI on weather are examined across regions in the eastern and western United States at 36, 12, 4, and 1 km grid spacing for short-term periods during the summer of 2006. ACI impacts are determined by comparing simulations with current climatological aerosol levels to simulations with aerosol levels reduced by 90%. The aerosol–cloud lifetime effect is found to be the dominant process leading to suppressed precipitation in regions of the eastern United States, while regions in the western United States experience offsetting impacts on precipitation from the cloud lifetime effect and other effects that enhance precipitation. Generally, the cloud lifetime effect weakens with decreasing grid spacing due to a decrease in relative importance of autoconversion compared to accretion. Subgrid-scale ACI are dominant at 36 km, while grid-scale ACI are dominant at 4 and 1 km. At 12 km grid spacing, grid-scale and subgrid-scale ACI processes are comparable in magnitude and spatial coverage, but random perturbations in grid-scale ACI impacts make the overall grid-scale ACI impact appear muted. This competing behavior of grid- and subgrid-scale clouds complicate the understanding of ACI at 12 km within the current WRF modeling framework. The work implies including subgrid-scale cloud microphysics and ice/mixed-phase-cloud ACI processes may be necessary in weather and climate models to study ACI effectively. |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 气候变化 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/301823 |
专题 | 地球科学 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Glotfelty, Timothy,Alapaty, Kiran,He, Jian,等. Studying Scale Dependency of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions Using Multiscale Cloud Formulations[J]. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,2020. |
APA | Glotfelty, Timothy,Alapaty, Kiran,He, Jian,Hawbecker, Patrick,Song, Xiaoliang,&Zhang, Guang.(2020).Studying Scale Dependency of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions Using Multiscale Cloud Formulations.Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. |
MLA | Glotfelty, Timothy,et al."Studying Scale Dependency of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions Using Multiscale Cloud Formulations".Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2020). |
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