Cloud-resolving simulations of intense tropical Hector thunderstorms: Implications for aerosol-cloud interactions

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621 C, 2006, Pages 3079-3106

  Connolly, Paul J ^a   Choularton, T W ^a   Gallagher, M W ^a   Bower, K N ^a   Flynn, M J ^a   Whiteway, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud microphysics; EMERALD II; Hallett Mossop process

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECTS; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTIONS; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBERS; CLOUD DYNAMICS; CLOUD EFFECTS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODELS; CLOUD-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; COLLECTION PROCESS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CLOUDS; EMERALD-II; HALLETT-MOSSOP PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS FREEZING; ICE NUCLEUS; ICE PRODUCTIONS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MICROPHYSICS; NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; OPTIMAL VALUES; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STORM STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; DROPS; FREEZING; GEMS; ICE; LEAD; PHYSICS; THUNDERSTORMS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 34848837269     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.86     Document Type: Article

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