A large-eddy model for cirrus clouds with explicit aerosol and ice microphysics and Lagrangian ice particle tracking

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 653, 2010, Pages 2074-2093

  Sölch, Ingo ^a   Kärcher, Bernd ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud resolving models; Ice aggregation; Large eddy simulations

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PARTICLES; CENTRAL COMPONENT; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; DIABATIC; EDDY MODEL; EULERIAN GRIDS; GRAVITATIONAL SEDIMENTATION; ICE AGGREGATION; ICE CRYSTAL SIZE; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE NUCLEATION; ICE PARTICLES; ICE PHASE; IDEALIZED MODELS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; KEY PROCESS; LAGRANGIAN; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MICROPHYSICS; NEW MODEL; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GROWTH; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROCESS-ORIENTED; RADIATIVE HEATING; SCALING RELATIONS; SEDIMENTATION VELOCITIES; SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS; TURBULENT DISPERSION; WATER VAPOUR;

AGGLOMERATION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; RADIANT HEATING; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ICE;

AEROSOL; AGGREGATION; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; FREEZING; HEATING; ICE; ICE CRYSTAL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SUBLIMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77958583114     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.689     Document Type: Article

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