Bulk or modal parameterizations for below-cloud scavenging of fine, coarse, and giant particles by both rain and snow

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1301-1310

  Wang, Xihong ^a   Zhang, Leiming ^b   Moran, Michael D ^b  

^a Kellys Environmental Services ^*  (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

aerosol modes; atmospheric aerosols; precipitation scavenging; scavenging coefficient

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL TRANSPORT MODEL; BELOW-CLOUD SCAVENGING; NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SCAVENGING COEFFICIENTS; THEORETICAL FORMULATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

AEROSOL; CLOUD COVER; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923147295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000392     Document Type: Article

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