Observations and Parameterizations of Particle Size Distributions in Deep Tropical Cirrus and Stratiform Precipitating Clouds: Results from In Situ Observations in TRMM Field Campaigns

By Andrew J. Heymsfield, A. Bansemer, Paul R. Field, S. Durden, J. Stith, J. Dye, W. Hall, C. A. Grainger. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Precipitation and Evolution Sensitivity in Simulated Deep Convective Storms: Comparisons between Liquid-Only and Simple Ice and Liquid Phase Microphysics* (2004, background): “More of the parameter space could be explored because in observed thunderstorms, the intercept parameter for snow can vary by three orders of magnitude (Heymsfield et al. 2002) and the intercept parameter for hail/graupel can vary by five orders of magnitude (e.g., Knight et al. 1982).”
A microphysics guide to cirrus clouds – Part 1: Cirrus types (2015, methodology): “Cirrus cloud classifications already exist and are used in the literature (e.g. Sassen, 2002; Heymsfield et al., 2002b; Muhlbauer et al., 2014; Jackson et al., 2015).”
A review of the light scattering properties of cirrus (2009, background): “The depth from the cloud-top is also a proxy for time so that the deeper the ice crystal falls, due to gravitational settling, the more time there is for these ice crystals to grow due to vapor deposition and perhaps more importantly ice crystal aggregation [23–25].”
Nucleation processes in deep convection simulated by a cloud-system-resolving model with double-moment bulk microphysics (2007, methodology): “Also, the deep convection observed in KWAJEX was mostly shallower than in TOGA COARE, with cloud tops in the range of 8–11 km MSL (about 20° to 50°C; Heymsfield et al. 2002).”
Parametrization of ice‐particle size distributions for mid‐latitude stratiform cloud (2005, background): “It can be seen in these figures that the distributions are generally monomodal as Hogan and Illingworth (2003)”