cloud droplet number
Improvement of airborne retrievals of cloud droplet number concentration of trade wind cumulus using a synergetic approach
... of cloud droplet number concentration N are limited by the sampled cloud ...situ cloud sampling and global ...of cloud optical thickness τ , liq- uid water path (LWP), ...
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Differences in liquid cloud droplet effective radius and number concentration estimates between MODIS collections 5.1 and 6 over global oceans
... infer cloud op- tical thickness (τ ) and droplet effective radius through the bi-spectral method of Nakajima and King ...retrieved cloud optical thickness and droplet effective ra- dius, ...
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Large methane releases lead to strong aerosol forcing and reduced cloudiness
... and cloud droplet number concentrations ...average cloud albedo, decrease cloud lifetimes and cloudiness, and thus further warm the ...
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Assessment of aerosol–cloud–radiation correlations in satellite observations, climate models and reanalysis
... between cloud droplet number and water ...between cloud droplet number and water content are not negligible for the co-variations emerging on larger ...are cloud dynamics ...
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Integration of prognostic aerosol–cloud interactions in a chemistry transport model coupled offline to a regional climate model
... standard cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) formulation (hereafter, referred to as the “stand- alone RCA4 version” or “CTRL” ...in cloud microphysical proper- ties and radiative fluxes ...
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Sensitivity of cloud albedo to aerosol concentration and spectral dispersion of cloud droplet size distribution
... aerosol number concentration and the relative dispersion of the cloud droplet size distribution (spectral dispersion) on a regional scale can modify the cloud ...The number of aerosols ...
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Ground-based retrieval of continental and marine warm cloud microphysics
... of cloud microphysics both at global and regional scale; especially for the description of cloud formation, numerical simulations at the regional and micro-scale (cloud-resolved scale) permit to ...
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An investigation into the performance of four cloud droplet activation parameterisations
... Abstract. Cloud droplet number concentration prediction is central to large-scale weather and climate ...benchmark cloud parcel model calculation of aerosol parti- cle growth and activation, ...
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Multi-variate probability density functions with dynamics for cloud droplet activation in large-scale models: single column tests
... of cloud fraction, layer-averaged cloud water content (q c ), and in-cloud cloud droplet number concentration (N d ) from the MVD PDFs (blue) and from COAMPS LES and S-S LES ...
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Role of Sulfates in Regional Cloud-Climate Interactions
... of cloud droplets of different sizes are predicted in models of cloud microphysics, however, measurements made in natural clouds to verify this are extremely ...strand cloud water collector was ...
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Natural aerosol–climate feedbacks suppressed by anthropogenic aerosol
... and cloud processing, wet and dry deposition, and in/ below cloud ...aerosol number concentration [Spracklen et ...aerosol number size distribution [Spracklen et ...of cloud ...
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Response to marine cloud brightening in a multi model ensemble
... suitable cloud conden- sation nuclei (CCN), for instance sea salt, into the marine boundary ...existing cloud droplets tend to distribute themselves on the available nuclei, a larger number of CCN ...
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Large simulated radiative effects of smoke in the south-east Atlantic
... thickness, cloud top temperature and droplet effective radius) retrieved by MODIS and SEVIRI CPP (Deneke et ...calculate cloud droplet number concentration are presented in ...lower ...
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An aerosol activation metamodel of v1.2.0 of the pyrcel cloud parcel model: development and offline assessment for use in an aerosol–climate model
... detailed cloud par- cel model which has been trained to assess droplet nucle- ation from a complex, multimodal aerosol size distribution simulated by a global aerosol–climate ...estimate cloud ...
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Observations of the variation in aerosol and cloud microphysics along the 20°s transect on 13 november 2008 during VOCALS-REx
... the cloud microphysics are consistent with the typical behavior showing a decrease in aerosol particles by a factor of 3–4, and a decrease in cloud droplet number concentration westward from ...
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Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei number, with implications for cloud droplet formation
... Among the main sources of uncertainty in simulating aerosol microphysics at regional to global scales are the amounts of particle and precursor vapor mass emitted by an- thropogenic activities or natural sources, as well ...
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Supersaturation calculation in large eddy simulation models for prediction of the droplet number concentration
... the cloud, values greater than at cloud ...up cloud droplet number concentration values of about 150 cm −3 and a few values greater than 200 cm −3 ...
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A new WRF-Chem treatment for studying regional-scale impacts of cloud processes on aerosol and trace gases in parameterized cumuli
... of cloud effects on aerosol and trace gases within parameterized shallow and deep convec- tion, and aerosol effects on cloud droplet number, has been implemented in the Weather Research and ...
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Importance of tropospheric volcanic aerosol for indirect radiative forcing of climate
... the cloud albedo radiative forcing under pre-industrial (PI) and present-day (PD) ...mean cloud droplet number concentrations by 40 % under PI conditions, but by only 10 % under PD ...mean ...
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Diet induced co variation between architectural and physicochemical plasticity in an extended phenotype
... gluey droplet morphometrics, thread stickiness and salt concentrations when prey mass and energy were manipulated, and spiral spacing co-varied with gluey silk salt concentrations when prey size and feeding ...
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