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Marine boundary layer cloud regimes and POC formation in a CRM coupled to a bulk aerosol scheme |
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A. H. Berner, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, A. Muhlbauer |
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Englisch
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1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 13, no. 24 ; Nr. 13, no. 24 (2013-12-23), S.12549-12572 |
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250085902
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-13-12549-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
A cloud-resolving model (CRM) coupled to a new intermediate-complexity bulk
aerosol scheme is used to study aerosol–boundary-layer–cloud–precipitation
interactions and the development of pockets of open cells (POCs) in
subtropical stratocumulus cloud layers. The aerosol scheme prognoses mass and
number concentration of a single lognormal accumulation mode with surface
and entrainment sources, evolving subject to processing of activated aerosol
and scavenging of dry aerosol by clouds and rain.
The CRM with the aerosol scheme is applied to a range of steadily forced
cases idealized from a well-observed POC. The long-term system evolution is
explored with extended two-dimensional (2-D) simulations of up to 20 days,
mostly with diurnally averaged insolation and 24 km wide domains, and one
10 day three-dimensional (3-D) simulation. Both 2-D and 3-D simulations support
the Baker–Charlson hypothesis of two distinct aerosol–cloud "regimes"
(deep/high-aerosol/non-drizzling and shallow/low-aerosol/drizzling) that
persist for days; transitions between these regimes, driven by either
precipitation scavenging or aerosol entrainment from the free-troposphere
(FT), occur on a timescale of ten hours. The system is analyzed using a
two-dimensional phase plane with inversion height and boundary layer average
aerosol concentrations as state variables; depending on the specified
subsidence rate and availability of FT aerosol, these regimes are either
stable equilibria or distinct legs of a slow limit cycle.
The same steadily forced modeling framework is applied to the coupled
development and evolution of a POC and the surrounding overcast boundary
layer in a larger 192 km wide domain. An initial 50% aerosol reduction is
applied to half of the model domain. This has little effect until the
stratocumulus thickens enough to drizzle, at which time the low-aerosol
portion transitions into open-cell convection, forming a POC. Reduced
entrainment in the POC induces a negative feedback between the areal fraction
covered by the POC and boundary layer depth changes. This stabilizes the
system by controlling liquid water path and precipitation sinks of aerosol
number in the overcast region, while also preventing boundary layer collapse
within the POC, allowing the POC and overcast to coexist indefinitely in a
quasi-steady equilibrium. |
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