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Sulfate Production and Deposition in Midlatitude Continental Cumulus Clouds. Part II: Chemistry Model Formulation and Sensitivity Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We examine characteristics of in-cloud sulfate chemistry using a 1.5-dimensional Eulerian cumulus cloud model. Specifically we present here a study of (i) the relative importance of aerosol scavenging to in-cloud production ...
Sulfate Production and Deposition in Midlatitude Continental Cumulus Clouds. Part I: Cloud Model Formulation and Base Run Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We have developed a 1.5 dimensional Eulerian cumulus cloud model which incorporates: (i) two in-cloud regions, (ii) a bulk water parameterization including the ice phase, (iii) an entrainment formulation based on the ...
A Theoretical Method for Computing Vertical Distributions of Acidity and Sulfate Production within Cumulus Clouds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An aqueous chemistry model has been combined with an entraining cumulus cloud model to predict vertical distributions of pH (=?log10[H+]) within a cloud. The cloud model predicts vertical variations of temperature, pressure, ...
Entrainment and Detrainment in Cumulus Clouds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Vertical redistribution of air and its properties inside convective clouds can be studied by standard thermodynamic analyses (Paluch and saturation point diagrams) if the clouds are nonprecipitating and ice free. It is ...
A Midlatitude Cumulus Parameterization that Incorporates Cloudtop Entrainment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this paper we present a Kuo-type cumulus parameterization that includes a steady state one-dimensional cloudtop entraining cloud model and ice phase microphysics. Heating profiles computed with this parameterization are ...