Effect of aerosol on trade cumulus cloud morphology

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Jiang, Hongli ^a   Feingold, Graham ^a   Koren, Lian ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIQUIDS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CHAIN REACTION; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CUMULUS CLOUD; GRID SIZE; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; LIQUID WATER PATHS; MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PARAMETERIZING; POWER-LAW FUNCTIONS; TRADE-WIND CUMULUS;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PERTURBATION; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRADE WIND; VOLCANIC CLOUD; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 68749108134     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011750     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abel, S. J., and B. J. Shipway (2007), A comparison of cloud resolving model simulations of trade wind cumulus with aircraft observations taken during RICO, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 133, 781-794.
2. Ackerman, A. S., O. B. Toon, D. E. Stevens, A. J. Heymsfield, V. Ramanathan, and E. J. Welton (2000), Reduction of tropical cloudiness by soot, Science, 288, 1042-1047.
3. Albrecht, B. A. (1989), Aerosols, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness, Science, 245, 1227-1230.
4. Baker, M. B., R. G. Corbin, and J. Latham (1980), The influence of entrainment on the evolution of cloud droplet spectral: I. A model of inhomogeneous mixing in clouds, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 106, 581-598.
5. Benner, C. T., and J. A. Curry (1998), Characteristics of small tropical cumulus clouds and their impact on the environment, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 28,753-28,767.
6. Berg, L. K., and E. I. Kassianov (2008), Temporal variability of fair-weather cumulus statistics at the ACRF SGP site, J. Clim., 21, 3344-3358.
7. Bohren, C. F. (1980), Multiple scattering of light and some of its observable consequence, Am. J. Phys., 55, 524-533.
8. Brown, A. (1999), The sensitivity of large-eddy simulations of shallow cumulus convection to resolution and subgrid model, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 125, 469-482.
9. Burnet, F., and J.-L. Brenguier (2007), Observational study of the entrainment-mixing process in warm convective clouds, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1995-2011.
10. Cahalan, R. F., and J. H. Joseph (1989), Fractal statistics of cloud fields, Mon. Weather Rev, 117, 261-272.
11. Charlson, R. J., A. S. Ackerman, F. A.-M. Bender, T. L. Anderson, and Z. Liu (2007), On the climate forcing consequences of the albedo continuum between cloudy and clear air, Tellus, Ser. B, 59, 715-727.
12. Clark, T. L. (1974), A study in cloud phase parameterization using the gamma distribution, J. Atmos. Sci., 31, 142-155.
13. Cotton, W. R., et al. (2003), RAMS 2001 : Current status and future directions, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 82, 5-29, doi:10.1007/s00703-001-0584-9.
14. Deardorff, J. W. (1980), Stratocumulus-capped mixed layers derived from a three-dimensional model, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 18, 495-527.
15. Dey, S., L. Di Girolamo, and G. Zhao (2008), Scale effect on statistics on the macrophysical properties of trade wind cumuli over the tropical western Atlantic during RICO, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24214, doi:10.1029/2008JD010295.
16. Feingold, G., S. M. Kreidenweis, B. Stevens, and W. R. Cotton (1996), Numerical simulation of stratocumulus processing of cloud condensation nuclei through collision-coalescence, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 21,391-21,402.
17. Feingold, G., H. Jiang, and J. Y. Harrington (2005), On smoke suppression of clouds in Amazonia, Geophys. Res. lett., 32, L02804, doi:10.1029/ 2004GL021369.
18. Harrington, J. Y., T. Reisin, W. R. Cotton, and S. M. Kreidenweis (1999), Cloud resolving simulations of Arctic atratus. Part II: Transition-season clouds, Atmos. Res., 51, 45-75.
19. Hill, A. A., G. Feingold, and H. Jiang (2009), The influence of entrainment and mixing assumption on aerosol-cloud integrations in marine stratocumulus, J. Atmos. Sci., 66(5), 1450-1464.
20. Jensen, J. B., and M. B. Baker (1989), A simple model of droplet spectral evolution during turbulent mixing, J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2812-2828.
21. Jiang, H., and G. Feingold (2006), Effect of aerosol on warm convective clouds: Aerosol-cloud-surface flux feedbacks in a new coupled large eddy model, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D01202, doi:10.1029/2005JD006138.
22. Jiang, H., H. Xue, A. Teller, G. Feingold, and Z. Levin (2006), Aerosol effects on the lifetime of shallow cumulus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14806, doi:10.1029/2006GL026024.
23. Jiang, H., G. Feingold, H. H. Jonsson, M. Lu, P. Y. Chuang, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008), Statistical comparison of properties of simulated and observed cumulus clouds in the vicinity of Houston during the Gulf of Mexico Atmospheric Composition and Climate Study (GoMACCS), J. Geophys. Res., 113, D13205, doi:10.1029/2007JD009304.
24. Kaufman, Y. J., I. Koren, L. A. Remer, D. Rosenfeld, and Y. Rudich (2005), The effect of smoke, dust, and pollution aerosol on shallow cloud development over the Atlantic ocean, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 102, 11,207-11,212.
25. Koren, I., L. Oreopoulos, G. Feingold, L. A. Remer, and O. Altaratz (2008), How small is a small cloud, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3855-3864.
26. Krüger, O., and H. Graßl (2004), Albedo reduction by absorbing aerosols over China, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L02108, doi:10.1029/2003GL019111.
27. Lopez, R. E. (1977), The lognormal distribution and cumulus cloud populations, Mon. Weather Rev., 105, 865-872.
28. Malkus, J. S. (1957), Trade cumulus cloud groups: some observations suggesting a mechanism of their origin, Tellus, 9, 33-44.
29. Neggers, R. A. J., H. J. J. Jonker, and A. P. Siebesma (2003), Size statistics of cumulus cloud populations in large-eddy simulations, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1060-1074.
30. Nitta, T. (1975), Observational determination of cloud mass flux distributions, J. Atmos. Sci., 32, 73-91.
31. Plank, V. G. (1969), The size distribution of cumulus cloud in representative Florida populations, J. Appl. Meteorol., 8, 46-67.
32. Raga, G. B., and P. R. Jonas (1993), Microphysical and radiative properties of small cumulus clouds over the sea, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 119, 1399-1417.
33. Rauber, R. M., et al. (2007), Rain in shallow cumulus over the ocean, the RICO campaign, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 88, 1912-1928.
34. Rodts, S. M. A., P. G. Duynkerke, and H. J. J. Jonker (2003), Size distributions and dynamical properties of shallow cumulus clouds from aircraft observations and satellite data, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1895-1912.
35. Schmidt, K. S., G. Feingold, P. Pilewskie, H. Jiang, O. Coddington, and M. Wendisch (2009), Irradiance in polluted cumulus fields: Measured and modeled cloud-aerosol effects, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07804, doi:10.1029/ 2008GL036848.
36. Sengupta, S. K., R. M. Welch, M. S. Navar, T. A. Berendes, and D. W. Chen (1990), Cumulus cloud field morphology and spatial patterns derived from high spatial resolution Landsat imagery, J. Appl. Meteorol., 29, 1245-1267.
37. Short, D. A., and K. Nakamura (2000), TRMM radar observations of shallow precipitation over the tropical oceans, J. Clim., 13, 4107-4124.
38. Siebert, H., H. Franke, K. Lehmann, R. Maser, E.-W. Saw, D. Schell, R. A. Shaw, and M. Wendisch (2006), Probing finescale dynamics and microphysics of clouds with helicopter-borne measurements, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 87, 1727-1738.
39. Siebesma, A. P., et al. (2003), A large eddy simulation intercomparison study of shallow cumulus convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1201-1219.
40. Stevens, B. (2007), On the growth of layers of nonprecipitating cumulus convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2916-2931.
41. Tzivion, S., G. Feingold, and Z. Levin (1987), An efficient numerical solution to the stochastic collection equation, J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 3139-3149.
42. Warner, J. (1955), The water content of cumuliform cloud, Tellus, 7, 449-457.
43. Warner, J. (1973), Microstructure of cumulus cloud. Part IV: The effect on the droplet spectrum of mixing between cloud and environment, J. Atmos. Sci., 30, 256-261.
44. Wielicki, B. A., and R. M. Welch (1986), Cumulus cloud properties derived using Landsat satellite data, J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol., 25, 261-276.
45. Xue, H., and G. Feingold (2006), Large eddy simulations of trade wind cumuli: Investigation of aerosol indirect effects, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1605-1622.
46. Xue, H., G. Feingold, and B. Stevens (2008), Aerosol effects on clouds, precipitation, and the organization of shallow cumulus convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 392-406.
47. Zhao, G., and L. Di Girolamo (2007), Statistics on the macrophysical properties of trade wind cumuli over the tropical western Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10204, doi:10.1029/2006JD007371.
48. Zhao, M., and P. H. Austin (2005), Life cycle of numerically simulated shallow cumulus clouds. Part I: Transport, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 1269-1290.
49. Zuidema, P., H. Xue, and G. Feingold (2008), Shortwave radiative impacts from aerosol effects on marine shallow cumuli, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1979-1990.