Abstract: Measurements of the droplet size distribution collected in a field of small nonprecipitating cumuli are analyzed. It appears that despite the high variability of the measured droplet concentration, the droplet spectral ...

Abstract: Thermodynamical and microphysical measurements collected in convective clouds are examined within the frame of the homogeneous/inhomogeneous mixing concept, to determine how entrainment-mixing processes affect cloud droplets, ...

Abstract: Measurements of cloud droplet spectra performed with the Fast-Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe during the Small Cumulus Microphysics Study (1995) are analyzed. Fifty cloud samples with narrow droplet spectra are ...

Abstract: Cloud samples of narrow spectra observed in adiabatic cores of cumulus clouds are selected and the droplet spatial distribution is examined in order to document microscale heterogeneities of the droplet concentration. ...

Abstract: Microphysical measurements performed during the Small Cumulus Microphysics Study (SCMS) experiment are analyzed in order to examine the instrumental limitations of forward scattering spectrometer probes (FSSPs). Complementary ...

Abstract: A simple numerical model designed to predict the evolution of cloud droplet spectra with special emphasis on the role of entrainment is developed for a case of nonprecipitating cloud. The model assumes that the cloud water ...

Abstract: In general circulation models, clouds are parameterized and radiative transfer calculations are performed using the plane-parallel approximation over the cloudy fraction of each model grid. The albedo bias resulting from ...

Abstract: Entrainment-mixing processes such as droplet spectrum broadening and its impact on the onset of precipitation are, among many others, physical phenomena whose experimental study relies on in-cloud airborne measurements. ...

Abstract: At high droplet number concentration, measurements of the droplet number concentration, of the droplet spectrum, and of the liquid water content with the FSSP-100 are significantly affected by the coincidences of particles ...

Abstract: A method for detecting malfunctions during collection of data with the forward-scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP) is discussed. Droplet spectra measured with the probe are not sufficient to alert operators of probe ...