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contributor authorYano, Jun-Ichi
contributor authorPhillips, Vaughan T. J.
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:59:36Z
date available2017-06-09T16:59:36Z
date copyright2016/12/01
date issued2016
identifier issn0022-4928
identifier otherams-77564.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4220136
description abstracthe number of ice fragments generated by breakup of large graupel in collisions with small graupel fluctuates randomly owing to fluctuations in relative sizes and densities of colliding graupel particles and the stochastic nature of fracture propagation. This paper investigates the impact of the stochasticity of breakup on ice multiplication.When both the rate of generation of primary ice and the initial number concentration of ice crystals are low, the system most likely loses all the initial ice and graupel owing to a lack of sustaining sources. Even randomness does not change this mean evolution of the system in its phase space. However, a fluctuation of ice breakup number gives a small but finite chance that substantial ice crystal fragments are generated by breakup of large graupel. That, in turn, generates more large graupel. This multiplicative process due to fluctuations potentially leads to a small but finite chance of explosive growth of ice number. A rigorous stochastic analysis demonstrates this point quantitatively.The randomness considered here belongs to a particular category called ?multiplicative? noise, because the noise amplitude is proportional to a given physical state. To contrast the multiplicative-noise nature of ice breakup with a standard ?additive? noise process, fluctuation of the primary ice generation rate is also considered as an example of the latter. These processes are examined by taking the Fokker?Planck equation that explicitly describes the evolution of the probability distribution with time. As an important conclusion, stability in the phase space of the cloud microphysical system of breakup in ice?ice collisions is substantially altered by the multiplicative noise.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleExplosive Ice Multiplication Induced by Multiplicative-Noise Fluctuation of Mechanical Breakup in Ice–Ice Collisions
typeJournal Paper
journal volume73
journal issue12
journal titleJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
identifier doi10.1175/JAS-D-16-0051.1
journal fristpage4685
journal lastpage4697
treeJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2016:;Volume( 073 ):;issue: 012
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