Cloud droplet sedimentation, entrainment efficiency, and subtropical stratocumulus albedo

By Chris Bretherton, Peter N. Blossey, J. Uchida. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change

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A New Moist Turbulence Parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model (2009, methodology): “The case specifications are given by Stevens et al. (2005) and only key aspects will be summarized here.”
Mechanisms of marine low cloud sensitivity to idealized climate perturbations: A single‐LES exploration extending the CGILS cases (2013, methodology): “It uses the Nicholls and Turton [1986] entrainment parameterization modified to include LES-tuned parameterization of sedimentation effects on entrainment efficiency [Bretherton et al., 2007].”
Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change (2020, background): “…and potentially important aci processes like evaporative-595 entrainment feedbacks (S. Wang et al., 2003; A. S. Ackerman et al., 2004; Hill et al., 2009;596 Xue & Feingold, 2006), sedimentation-entrainment feedbacks (Bretherton et al., 2007),597 and boundary-layer decoupling (Sandu et al., 2008).”
Large-Eddy Simulations of a Drizzling, Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer (2009, methodology): “As already noted, in the ensemble of drizzling simulations for the DYCOMS-II RF02 case here, cloud water sedimentation results in reduced entrainment and increased LWP, consistent with Bretherton et al. (2007).”
The Influence of Entrainment and Mixing Assumption on Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus (2009, methodology): “As in MG08, the response of our simulations to the mixing assumption is much less dramatic than that suggested by Grabowski (2006) or Chosson et al. (2007). The method used to simulate extreme inhomogeneous mixing is only applied to the subgrid scales. An alternative method is to apply the mixing as”
Global observations of aerosol‐cloud‐precipitation‐climate interactions (2014, methodology): “This was both simulated in idealized case studies [Ackerman et al., 2004; Bretherton et al., 2007] and observed to the extent that 30% of the ship tracks in closedmarine stratocumulus clouds had a smaller albedo than the background, instead of the expected larger albedo due to the Twomey effect [Che”
Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path (2018, methodology): “…(Suzuki et al., 2013), it is not clear how strongly this impacts LWP. (b) The sedimentation–entrainment feedback (Ackerman et al., 2004; Bretherton et al., 2007) – the reduction in droplet radius from increasedNd reduces the sedimentation flux in stratiform clouds, concentrating…”