A statistical model of drop-size spectra for stratocumulus clouds

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 531, 1996, Pages 611-634

  Considine, Geoffrey ^a   Curry, Judith A ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud droplet spectra; Microphysics; Stratocumulus

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLET MODEL; CLOUD DROPLET SPECTRA; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LIFTING CONDENSATION LEVEL; MODEL EVALUATION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 0029729634     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53103     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Albrecht, B. A. 1989 Aerosols, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness. Science, 245, 1227-1230
2. Bartlett, J. T. and Jonas, P. R. 1972 On the dispersion of the sizes of droplets growing by condensation in turbulent clouds. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 98, 150-164
3. Bower, K. N., Choularton, T. W., Latham, J., Nelson, J., Baker, M. B. and Jensen, J. 1994 A parameterization of warm clouds for use in atmospheric general circulation models. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2722-2732
4. Cahalan, R. F. and Snider, J. B. 1989 Marine stratocumulus structure. Remote Sens. Environ., 28, 95-107
5. Charlock, T. P. 1982 Cloud optical feedback and climate stability in a radiative-convective model. Tellus, 34, 245-254
6. Clark, T. L. 1973 Numerical modeling of the dynamics and microphysics of warm cumulus convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 30, 857-878
7. Cooper, W. A. 1989 Effects of variable droplet growth histories on droplet size distributions. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1301-1311
8. Cooper, W. A. and Politovitch, M. K. 1989 Reply to Telford, J. W. (1989), J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2752-2754
9. Curry, J. A. 1986a Interactions among turbulence, radiation and microphysics in Arctic stratus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 90-106
10. 1986b Reply to Twomey, S. (1986), J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 2753-2755
11. Curry, J. A. and Herman, G. F. 1985 Infrared radiative properties of summertime Arctic stratus clouds. J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol., 24, 525-538
12. Curry, J. A., Ebert, E. E. and Herman, G. F. 1988 Mean and turbulence structure of the summertime Arctic cloudy boundary laver. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 114, 715-746
13. Hudson, J. G. and Svensson, G. 1995 Cloud microphysical relationships in California marine stratus. J. Atmos. Sci., in press
14. Iribarne, J. V. and Godson, W. L. 1981 Atmospheric thermodynamics. Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht
15. Kaufman, Y. J. and Nakajima, T. 1993 Effect of Amazon smoke on cloud microphysics and albedo - analysis from satellite imagery. J. Appl. Meteorol., 32, 729-743
16. Kogan, Y. L., Khairoutdinov, M., Lilly, D. K., Kogan, Z. N. and Liu, Q. 1995 Pp. 165-170 in 'Study of the effects of stratocumulus cloud layer dynamics on microphysics using a 3-D large-eddy simulation model with explicit microphysics'. Conference on cloud physics. American Meteorological Society
17. Landahl, M. T. and Mollo-Christensen, E. 1992 Turbulence and random processes in fluid mechanics. Cambridge University Press, New York
18. Manton, M. J. 1979 On the broadening of a droplet distribution by turbulence near cloud base. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 105, 899-914
19. Moeng, C. H. and Cotton, W. 1995 'Intercomparison of ten large-eddy simulation codes in simulating a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer'. Pp. 258-261 in 11th Symposium on boundary layers and turbulence. American Meteorological Society
20. Moeng, C. H. and Rotunno, R. 1990 Vertical-velocity skewness in the buoyancy-driven boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 9, 1149-1162
21. Nakajima, T., King, M. D., Spinhirne, J. D. and Radke, L. F. 1991 Determination of the optical thickness and effective particle radius of clouds from reflected solar radiation measurements. Part II: Marine stratocumulus observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 728-750
22. Nicholls, S. 1984 The dynamics of stratocumulus: aircraft observations and comparisons with a mixed layer model. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 110, 783-820
23. Politovich, M. K. and Cooper, W. A. 1988 Variability of supersaturation in cumulus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 1651-1664
24. Rogers, R. R. and Yau, M. K. 1989 A short course in cloud physics. Pergamon Press, New York
25. Schemenaur, R. S., Macpherson, J. I., Isaac, G. A. and Strapp, J. W. 1980 'Canadian participation in Hiplex 1979'. Report APRB 110, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada
26. Sedunov, Y. S. 1968 'Some considerations of condensation stage of cloud spectrum development'. Pp. 72-81 in Proc. International conference on cloud physics, Toronto
27. 1974 Physics of drop formation in the atmosphere. John Wiley and Sons, New York
28. Slingo, A. 1989 A GCM parameterization for the shortwave properties of water clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1419-1427
29. Slingo, A. and Schrecker, H. M. 1982 On the shortwave radiative properties of stratiform water clouds. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 108, 407-426
30. Stevens, B., Cotton, W. R. and Feingold, G. 1995 'The microphysical aspects of convection in marine stratocumulus'. Pp. 162-164 in Conference on cloud physics. American Meteorological Society
31. Tampieri, F. and Tomasi, C. 1976 Size distribution models of fog and cloud droplets in terms of the modified gamma function. Tellus, 4, 333-347
32. Telford, J. W. 1989 Comments on 'Variability of supersaturation in cumulus clouds'. J. Armas. Sci., 46, 2748-2751
33. Twomey, S. 1986 Comments on 'Interactions among turbulence, radiation and microphysics in Arctic stratus clouds'. J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 2752
34. Twomey, S. 1991 Aerosols, clouds, and radiation. Atmos. Environ., 25A, 11, 2435-2442
35. Twomey, S., Piepgrass, M. and Wolfe, T. L. 1984 An assessment of the impact of pollution on global cloud albedo. Tellus, 36B, 356-366