Droplet growth in a bin warm-rain scheme with Twomey CCN activation

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 290-301

  Grabowski, Wojciech W ^a   Andrejczuk, Miroslaw ^b   Wang, Lian Ping ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bin microphysics; ; Cloud physics; Droplet activation; Warm rain processes

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AIR PARCELS; BIN MICROPHYSICS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD PHYSICS; DIFFUSIONAL GROWTH; DROPLET ACTIVATION; DROPLET GROWTH; EARLY GROWTH; EULERIAN; GROWTH MODELS; IMPROVED SCHEME; LAGRANGIAN; MICROPHYSICS; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WARM-RAIN PROCESSES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DROP FORMATION; PHYSICS; RAIN;

BINS;

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVERGENCE; DROPLET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 78650799250     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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