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JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 11, Pages 3608-3619Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2586.1
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The process of evaporation of raindrops below cloud base is investigated by numerical simulations using a one-dimensional rainshaft model with bin microphysics. The simulations reveal a high variability of the shape of the raindrop size distributions, which has important implications for the efficiency of evaporation below cloud base. A new parameterization of the shape of the raindrop size distribution as a function of the mean volume diameter is suggested and applied in a two-moment microphysical scheme. In addition, the effect of evaporation on the number concentration of raindrops is parameterized. A comparison of results of the revised two-moment scheme and the bin microphysics rainshaft model shows that the two-moment scheme is able to reproduce the results of the reference model in a wide parameter range.
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