Abstract: Various commonly used Kessler-type parameterizations of the autoconversion of cloud droplets to embryonic raindrops are theoretically derived from the same formalism by applying the generalized mean value theorem for ...

Abstract: A systems theory has previously been developed by Liu and Hallett to interpret droplet size distributions in turbulent clouds by utilizing ideas from statistical physics and information theory. The present paper generalizes ...

Abstract: Existing Sundqvist-type parameterizations, which only consider dependence of the autoconversion rate on cloud liquid water content, are generalized to explicitly account for the droplet concentration and relative dispersion ...