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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 124, 期 23, 页码 13071-13090出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019JD030502
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Atmospheric System Research Program [DE-SC0014239, DE-SC0018926]
- U.S. DOE by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF AGS-1642291, NSF OPP-1744965]
- U.S. DOE [DE-SC0012704]
- NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0014239, DE-SC0018926] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
In this study, we conduct sensitivity experiments with the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 to understand the impact of representing heterogeneous distribution between cloud liquid and ice on the phase partitioning in mixed-phase clouds through different perturbations on the Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen (WBF) process. In two experiments, perturbation factors that are based on assumptions of pocket structure and the partial homogeneous cloud volume derived from the High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) Pole-to-Pole Observation (HIPPO) campaign are utilized. Alternately, a mass-weighted assumption is used in the calculation of WBF process to mimic the appearance of unsaturated area in mixed-phase clouds as the result of heterogeneous distribution. Model experiments are tested in both single column and weather forecast modes and evaluated against data from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program's Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) field campaign and long-term ground-based multisensor measurements. Model results indicate that perturbations on the WBF process can significantly modify simulated microphysical properties of Arctic mixed-phase clouds. The improvement of simulated cloud water phase partitioning tends to be linearly proportional to the perturbation magnitude that is applied in the three different sensitivity experiments. Cloud macrophysical properties such as cloud fraction and frequency of occurrence of low-level mixed-phase clouds are less sensitive to the perturbation magnitude than cloud microphysical properties. Moreover, this study indicates that heterogeneous distribution between cloud hydrometeors should be treated consistently for all cloud microphysical processes. The model vertical resolution is also important for liquid water maintenance in mixed-phase clouds.
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