On the Growth of Layers of Nonprecipitating Cumulus Convection

By Bjorn Stevens. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Bjorn Stevens
2. G. Feingold
3. A. Seifert
4. H. Xue
5. Hongli Jiang
6. Hugh Morrison
7. Sandrine Bony
8. A. P. Siebesma

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Bjorn Stevens
2. G. Feingold
3. A. Seifert
4. H. Xue
5. Hugh Morrison
6. Hongli Jiang
7. Sandrine Bony
8. A. P. Siebesma

Citations in the corpus

• Aerosol effects on clouds, precipitation, and the organization of shallow cumulus convection (2008, methodology): “3f), we expect the cloud layer to deepen less rapidly (as argued by Stevens 2007).”
• Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade‐wind cumulus as observed during RICO (2011, background): “…microphysical model; (ii) physically, we wish to explore whether precipitation robustly retards the growth of the cumulus layer, as hypothesized by Stevens (2007), and reduces cloud amount as hypothesized by Albrecht (1989); and (iii) practically, we wish to contribute to the growing suite of…”
• Understanding macrophysical outcomes of microphysical choices in simulations of shallow cumulus convection (2008, background): “Physically, in cases when precipitation is the principal brake on cloud growth (see Stevens 2007) this suggests that changes in the ambient aerosol will simply act to delay the onset of precipitation.”
• Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Feedbacks in a Constant Relative Humidity Atmosphere (2012, background): “Our decision to focus on this case, as opposed to other trade wind cases in the literature (e.g., Stevens et al. 2001; Siebesma et al. 2003; Stevens 2007; Bellon and Stevens 2012) is motivated by several factors.”
• Interpretation of the positive low-cloud feedback predicted by a climate model under global warming (2013, background): “…which is consistent with the expected growth of a marine shallow cumulus boundary layer in response to increased surface turbulent fluxes (Medeiros et al. 2005; Stevens 2007), rises the height of minimum MSE and then makes the vertical advection term of MSE more negative around the top of the PBL.”
• On the Factors Modulating the Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transitions (2011, background): “This result is not unexpected and corroborates previous work showing how boundary layer clouds are affected if they grow in moister environments (Stevens 2007).”
• Large‐eddy simulation of the transient and near‐equilibrium behavior of precipitating shallow convection (2015, unknown): “The invigoration of these clouds leads to deeper boundary layers, as by delaying the onset of precipitation these clouds can continue to loft their condensate into the inversion and thus grow deeper with time [Stevens, 2007].”