[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing

MW Christensen, A Gettelman, J Cermak… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-
day radiative forcing due to human activities. The nonlinearity of cloud-state changes to …

Diverse dispersion effects and parameterization of relative dispersion in urban fog in eastern China

Y Wang, C Lu, S Niu, J Lv, X Jia, X Xu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding cloud droplet relative dispersion is critical for mitigating the confounding
effect of aerosol‐cloud interactions in the simulation of the global climatic patterns. Diverse …

The role of turbulent fluctuations in aerosol activation and cloud formation

P Prabhakaran, ASM Shawon, G Kinney… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Aerosol indirect effects are one of the leading contributors to cloud radiative properties
relevant to climate. Aerosol particles become cloud droplets when the ambient relative …

Impact of entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations on droplet size distributions in a cumulus cloud: An investigation using Lagrangian microphysics with a subgrid …

KK Chandrakar, WW Grabowski… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations critically impact cloud droplet size distributions
(DSDs) in cumulus clouds. This problem is investigated via a new sophisticated modeling …

Extensive soot compaction by cloud processing from laboratory and field observations

J Bhandari, S China, KK Chandrakar, G Kinney… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Soot particles form during combustion of carbonaceous materials and impact climate and air
quality. When freshly emitted, they are typically fractal-like aggregates. After atmospheric …

DNS and LES for simulating stratocumulus: Better together

JP Mellado, CS Bretherton, B Stevens… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that combining direct numerical simulation (DNS) with large‐eddy simulation
(LES) and field studies could accelerate current lines of stratocumulus research. LES allows …

Broadening of cloud droplet spectra through eddy hop**: Turbulent entraining parcel simulations

GC Abade, WW Grabowski… - Journal of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper discusses the effects of cloud turbulence, turbulent entrainment, and entrained
cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation on the evolution of the cloud droplet size …

Supersaturation fluctuations during the early stage of cumulus formation

H Siebert, RA Shaw - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
On time scales that are long compared to the phase relaxation time, a quasi-steady
supersaturation s qs is expected to exist in clouds. On shorter time scales, however …

Cloud microphysical implications for marine cloud brightening: The importance of the seeded particle size distribution

F Hoffmann, G Feingold - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a viable way to counteract global
warming by artificially increasing the albedo and lifetime of clouds via deliberate seeding of …

Designing a convection‐cloud chamber for collision‐coalescence using large‐eddy simulation with bin microphysics

A Wang, M Ovchinnikov, F Yang… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collisional growth of cloud droplets is an essential yet uncertain process for drizzle and
precipitation formation. To improve the quantitative understanding of this key component of …