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DOI | 10.5194/acp-17-9599-2017 |
A ubiquitous ice size bias in simulations of tropical deep convection | |
Stanford, McKenna W.1; Varble, Adam1; Zipser, Ed1; Strapp, J. Walter2; Leroy, Delphine3; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons3; Potts, Rodney4; Protat, Alain4 | |
2017-08-09 | |
发表期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 17期号:15 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Canada; France; Australia |
英文摘要 | The High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content (HAIC-HIWC) joint field campaign produced aircraft retrievals of total condensed water content (TWC), hydrometeor particle size distributions (PSDs), and vertical velocity (w) in high ice water content regions of mature and decaying tropical mesoscale convective systems (MCSs). The resulting dataset is used here to explore causes of the commonly documented high bias in radar reflectivity within cloud-resolving simulations of deep convection. This bias has been linked to overly strong simulated convective updrafts lofting excessive condensate mass but is also modulated by parameterizations of hydrometeor size distributions, single particle properties, species separation, and microphysical processes. Observations are compared with three Weather Research and Forecasting model simulations of an observed MCS using different microphysics parameterizations while controlling for w, TWC, and temperature. Two popular bulk microphysics schemes (Thompson and Morrison) and one bin microphysics scheme (fast spectral bin microphysics) are compared. For temperatures between -10 and -40 degrees C and TWC > 1 gm(-3), all microphysics schemes produce median mass diameters (MMDs) that are generally larger than observed, and the precipitating ice species that controls this size bias varies by scheme, temperature, and w. Despite a much greater number of samples, all simulations fail to reproduce observed high-TWC conditions (> 2 gm(-3)) between -20 and -40 degrees C in which only a small fraction of condensate mass is found in relatively large particle sizes greater than 1mm in diameter. Although more mass is distributed to large particle sizes relative to those observed across all schemes when controlling for temperature, w, and TWC, differences with observations are significantly variable between the schemes tested. As a result, this bias is hypothesized to partly result from errors in parameterized hydrometeor PSD and single particle properties, but because it is present in all schemes, it may also partly result from errors in parameterized microphysical processes present in all schemes. Because of these ubiquitous ice size biases, the frequently used microphysical parameterizations evaluated in this study inherently produce a high bias in convective reflectivity for a wide range of temperatures, vertical velocities, and TWCs. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000407386800004 |
WOS关键词 | CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL ; BULK MICROPHYSICS SCHEME ; MIDLATITUDE SQUALL LINE ; PART I ; RADAR REFLECTIVITY ; WATER-CONTENT ; PRECIPITATION DEVELOPMENT ; RADIATIVE-TRANSFER ; MESOSCALE MODEL ; CIRRUS ANVIL |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30437 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Utah, Dept Atmospher Sci, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA; 2.Met Analyt Inc, Aurora, ON, Canada; 3.Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Lab Meteorol Phys, Clermont Ferrand, France; 4.Australian Bur Meteorol, Res & Dev Branch, Melbourne, Vic, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stanford, McKenna W.,Varble, Adam,Zipser, Ed,et al. A ubiquitous ice size bias in simulations of tropical deep convection[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2017,17(15). |
APA | Stanford, McKenna W..,Varble, Adam.,Zipser, Ed.,Strapp, J. Walter.,Leroy, Delphine.,...&Protat, Alain.(2017).A ubiquitous ice size bias in simulations of tropical deep convection.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,17(15). |
MLA | Stanford, McKenna W.,et al."A ubiquitous ice size bias in simulations of tropical deep convection".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 17.15(2017). |
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