Radiative Properties of Boundary Layer Clouds: Droplet Effective Radius versus Number Concentration

By J. Brenguier, H. Pawłowska, L. Schüller, R. Preusker, J. Fischer, Y. Fouquart. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path (2018, methodology): “Nd is retrieved using the level 2, collection 6, MODIS cloud property dataset (MYD06_L2) at a 1 km by 1 km resolution, making use of the adiabatic assumption (Brenguier et al., 2000; Quaas et al., 2006).”
Global observations of aerosol‐cloud‐precipitation‐climate interactions (2014, methodology): “Using a measurement or retrieval of Nd overcomes this problem [Brenguier et al., 2000; Quaas et al., 2006].”
Satellite-based estimate of the direct and indirect aerosol climate forcing (2008, methodology): “CDNC can be computed from COD and CDR for liquid water clouds assuming adiabaticity [Brenguier et al., 2000; Schüller et al., 2005]:”
Evaluation of the aerosol indirect effect in marine stratocumulus clouds : droplet number, size, liquid water path, and radiative impact (2005, methodology): “This consistency of droplet concentration with height is typical for stratocumulus layers [Noonkester, 1984], while droplet size and liquid water content (LWC) increase with height [ Brenguier et al., 2000b ].”
Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud fraction (2016, methodology): “To estimate the cloud droplet number concentration (Nd), the MODIS cloud top effective radius (re) and cloud optical thickness (𝜏c) are used together with the adiabatic approximation [Brenguier et al., 2000].”
A New Visibility Parameterization for Warm-Fog Applications in Numerical Weather Prediction Models (2006, background): “It fluctuates between 3.8 and 0.9 for particle sizes of less than 4 m (Koenig 1971; Brenguier et al. 2000).”
Large-Eddy Simulations of Trade Wind Cumuli: Investigation of Aerosol Indirect Effects (2006, background): “2000), the Aerosol Characterization Experiment-II CLOUDY COLUMN experiments (Brenguier et al. 2000), and numerous others.”
Optical properties of terrestrial clouds (2004, background): “In conclusion, we note that radii of droplets increase with height (Brenguier et al., 2000).”
Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Feedbacks in a Constant Relative Humidity Atmosphere (2012, background): “15 is the asymmetry parameter, b ’ 2 is a constant factor related to the efficiency of light scattering by water droplets and the subadiabaticity of the cloud, re is the effective radius, h is the depth of the cloud layer, and rw is the density of liquid water (Stephens 1978; Brenguier et al. 2000).”
An observational study of drizzle formation in stratocumulus clouds for general circulation model (GCM) parameterizations (2003, methodology): “[24] In the ACE-2 data set, cloud microphysical properties were derived from measurements made on board the Meteo-France Merlin-IV [Brenguier et al., 2000b], with the Fast-FSSP [Brenguier et al., 1998], for the droplet size distribution in the radius range 1.3–18 mm, and the OAP-200X, for the…”
Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data (2009, background): ““second aerosol indirect effect” or “cloud lifetime effect” (Albrecht, 1989) and may also lead to an increased geometrical thickness of clouds (Pincus and Baker, 1994; Brenguier et al., 2000).”
Global indirect aerosol effects: a review (2004, neutral): “Investigations by Brenguier et al. (2000) and Schwartz et al. (2002) over the Atlantic Ocean showed that the cloud droplets were smaller in the polluted clouds than in the clean clouds.”
Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus - DYCOMS II (2003, background): “Most recently ACE-2 investigators have documented discrepancies of up to a factor of two between concentration calculated following the Köhler theory and CCN measurements (Raes et al., 2000; Brenguier et al., 2000a).”
Multisensor satellite observations of aerosol effects on warm clouds (2008, background): “, 1994], [Brenguier et al., 2000], solving for re and differentiating with respect to N yields, ∆re = − 1 3 ( 3 k4πρl )1/3 LWP H1/3N4/3 ∆N.”