期刊
WATER
卷 13, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w13172322
关键词
stratiform cloud; embedded convection; shattered particle; cloud microphysics measurement
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1507900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41775166, 41705142]
- program of the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters (KLMD)
- Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China [KLME201907]
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China [KDXS1803]
- Jiangsu Technology and Engineering Center of the Meteorological Sensor Network, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China [KDXS1803]
The shattered ice particles have different impacts on the CIP measurement depending on their size, affecting the measurement of particle size distribution, particle number concentration, and ice water content. In the stratiform region, the ratio of uncorrected PSD to corrected PSD is relatively small, while in the convective region, it is larger. In the convective region, the measured particle number concentration and ice water content can be significantly overestimated compared to the stratiform region.
Stratiform clouds with embedded convective cells is an important precipitation system. Precise knowledge of the cloud's microphysical structure can be useful for the development of a numerical weather prediction model and precipitation enhancement. Airborne measurement is one of the important ways for determining the microphysical structure of clouds. However, cloud particle shattering during measurement poses a serious problem to the measured microphysical characterization of clouds. In order to study the different influences of the shattered ice particles on the standard cloud imaging probe (CIP) measurement in the stratiform cloud region and the convective cloud region, a time-variant threshold method to identify the shattered fragments is presented. After application of this algorithm, the shattered fragments were recognized and their impacts on the particle size distribution (PSD), particle number concentration and ice water content measurement were analyzed. It was found that the shattering effect on the PSD decreases with the increasing size of less than 400 mu m, fluctuates between 400 mu m and 1000 mu m and slightly increases with the increasing size of larger than 1000 mu m on average in a stratiform region and a convective region. However, the average ratio of PSD uncorrected to that corrected for shattering events using the presented algorithm in convective clouds is larger than that in the stratiform regions in the whole size, and nearly twice that in the size of less than 1000 mu m. The measured number concentration can be overestimated by up to a factor of 3.9 on average in a stratiform region, while in a convective region, it is 7.7, nearly twice that of a stratiform region. The ice water content in a stratiform region can be overestimated by 29.5% on average, but by 60.7% in a convective region. These findings can be helpful for the cloud physics community to use the airborne CIP measurement data for numerical weather and climate models.
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