East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols and their Impact on Regional Clouds, Precipitation, and Climate (EAST‐AIRCPC)

Z Li, Y Wang, J Guo, C Zhao, MC Cribb… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols have significant and complex impacts on regional climate in East Asia. Cloud‐
aerosol‐precipitation interactions (CAPI) remain most challenging in climate studies. The …

Improving convection trigger functions in deep convective parameterization schemes using machine learning

T Zhang, W Lin, AM Vogelmann… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Deficiencies in convection trigger functions, used in deep convection parameterizations in
General Circulation Models (GCMs), have critical impacts on climate simulations. A novel …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison between observed and simulated AgI seeding impacts in a well-observed case from the SNOWIE field program

L Xue, C Weeks, S Chen… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
A dry-air intrusion induced by the tropopause folding split the deep cloud into two layers
resulting in a shallow orographic cloud with a supercooled liquid cloud top at around− 15° C …

How does vertical wind shear influence entrainment in squall lines?

JP Mulholland, JM Peters… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The influence of vertical wind shear on updraft entrainment in squall lines is not well
understood. To address this knowledge gap, a suite of high-resolution idealized numerical …

Observational quantification of aerosol invigoration for deep convective cloud lifecycle properties based on geostationary satellite

Z Pan, D Rosenfeld, Y Zhu, F Mao… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols affect cloud microstructure, dynamics, and precipitation by acting as cloud
condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nuclei with a large uncertainty for deep convective …

Towards a mechanistic understanding of precipitation over the far eastern tropical Pacific and western Colombia, one of the rainiest spots on Earth

JF Mejía, J Yepes, JJ Henao, G Poveda… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract According to Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation
Measurement (GPM) satellite precipitation composites, a broad maritime area over the far …

Investigation of raindrop size distribution and its potential influential factors during warm season over China

Y Han, J Guo, H Li, T Chen, X Guo, J Li, L Liu… - Atmospheric Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The nation-wide feature of raindrop size distribution (hereafter referred to as DSD) remains
largely unknown across China. We here analyzed the DSD using high-resolution …

The roles of mineral dust as cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei during the evolution of a hail storm

Q Chen, Y Yin, H Jiang, Z Chu, L Xue… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols play important roles in the evolution of deep convective systems like hailstorms. In
this study, the heterogeneous ice nucleation schemes have been improved in the Weather …

Machine-learning-based investigation of the variables affecting summertime lightning occurrence over the Southern Great Plains

S Shan, D Allen, Z Li, K Pickering… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Lightning is affected by many factors, many of which are not routinely measured, well
understood, or accounted for in physical models. Several commonly used machine learning …

Comparing the impact of environmental conditions and microphysics on the forecast uncertainty of deep convective clouds and hail

C Wellmann, AI Barrett, JS Johnson… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Severe hailstorms have the potential to damage buildings and crops. However, important
processes for the prediction of hailstorms are insufficiently represented in operational …