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 …

Experimental study on the evolution of droplet size distribution during the fog life cycle

M Mazoyer, F Burnet, C Denjean - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The evolution of the droplet size distribution (DSD) during the fog life cycle remains poorly
understood and progress is required to reduce the uncertainty of fog forecasts. To gain …

Is a more physical representation of aerosol chemistry needed for fog forecasting?

M Bhowmik, A Hazra, SD Ghude… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the changing climate, the study of fog formation is essential due to the impact of the
complexity of natural and anthropogenic aerosols. The evolution of the droplet size …

Impact of aerosols and turbulence on cloud droplet growth: an in-cloud seeding case study using a parcel–DNS (direct numerical simulation) approach

S Chen, L Xue, MK Yau - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
This paper investigates the relative importance of turbulence and aerosol effects on the
broadening of the droplet size distribution (DSD) during the early stage of cloud and …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence and microphysics in the Pi Chamber

T MacMillan, RA Shaw, WH Cantrell, DH Richter - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The Pi Chamber is a cloud chamber at Michigan Technological University that utilizes moist
turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard flow between two temperature-controlled, saturated plates to …

Dispersion of droplet size distributions in supercooled non‐precipitating stratocumulus from aircraft observations obtained during the southern ocean cloud radiation …

Y Wang, C Zhao, GM McFarquhar, W Wu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristics of cloud droplet size distributions and statistical relations of the relative
dispersion (ε) with the vertical velocity (w) and with the interstitial aerosol concentration (Nia) …

Measurement report: Closure analysis of aerosol–cloud composition in tropical maritime warm convection

E Crosbie, LD Ziemba, MA Shook… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud droplet chemical composition is a key observable property that can aid understanding
of how aerosols and clouds interact. As part of the Clouds, Aerosols and Monsoon …

An intercomparison of large‐eddy simulations of a convection cloud chamber using haze‐capable bin and Lagrangian cloud microphysics schemes

F Yang, F Hoffmann, RA Shaw… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent in situ observations show that haze particles exist in a convection cloud chamber.
The microphysics schemes previously used for large‐eddy simulations of the cloud chamber …