Abstract: AbstractAnalytical solutions are derived for the steady-state size distributions of precipitating rain and snow particles assuming growth via collection of suspended cloud particles. Application of the Liouville equation ...

Abstract: Airborne measurements of aerosols and cloud microstructures were made in the vicinity of the Azores Islands. Two dichotomous cases are examined: a clean marine air mass and a continentally influenced air mass. The clean ...

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Abstract: his paper presents a simple analytical framework for the dynamic response of cirrus to a local radiative flux convergence, expressible in terms of three independent modes of cloud evolution. Horizontally narrow and tenuous ...

Abstract: his paper describes observations of a field of deep and regular cloud formations that spans several hundreds of kilometers at the top of a midlatitude frontal system in the North Pacific storm track. Space-based imagery ...

Abstract: There is currently significant uncertainty about the extent to which cirrus clouds are composed of ?small? ice crystals smaller than about 20-?m effective radius. This is due in part to concerns that in situ measurements ...

Abstract: A new instrument, a cloud integrating nephelometer (CIN), was used on the University of Washington?s CV-580 research aircraft to measure the asymmetry parameter (g), volume scattering coefficient, and backscatter ratio in ...

Abstract: Mammatus clouds are the pouchlike lobes seen hanging from mid- to high-level clouds. They can look quite dramatic, but they are also interesting because they provide clues to what controls anvil cirrus dynamic evolution. ...

Abstract: Airborne measurements in the Arctic in spring show large increases in the concentrations of particles with diameters below about 0.1 ?m just above the tops of stratus clouds when the water-vapor mixing ratio is relatively ...