Particle-turbulence interactions in atmospheric clouds

RA Shaw - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Turbulence is ubiquitous in atmospheric clouds, which have enormous turbulence
Reynolds numbers owing to the large range of spatial scales present. Indeed, the ratio of …

[HTML][HTML] Review of particle-turbulence interactions and consequences for cloud physics

PA Vaillancourt, MK Yau - Bulletin of the American …, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper summarizes recent progress on particle–turbulence interaction and discusses
the possible implications for cloud physics. The subject is of considerable current interest as …

Towards understanding the role of turbulence on droplets in clouds: in situ and laboratory measurements

H Siebert, S Gerashchenko, A Gylfason, K Lehmann… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - Elsevier
The role of turbulence in droplet growth in clouds is controversial, in part because of the
difficulty of studying underlying processes in the cloud environment, and in part because of …

Growth of cloud droplets in a turbulent environment

WW Grabowski, LP Wang - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Motivated by the need to resolve the condensation-coalescence bottleneck in warm rain
formation, a significant number of studies have emerged in the past 15 years concerning the …

Droplet growth in warm turbulent clouds

BJ Devenish, P Bartello, JL Brenguier… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this survey we consider the impact of turbulence on cloud formation from the cloud scale
to the droplet scale. We assess progress in understanding the effect of turbulence on the …

[HTML][HTML] Collision rates of cloud droplets in turbulent flow

CN Franklin, PA Vaillancourt, MK Yau… - Journal of the …, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
Collision Rates of Cloud Droplets in Turbulent Flow in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
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Turbulence and cloud microphysics

PR Jonas - Atmospheric research, 1996 - Elsevier
The effects of in-cloud turbulence on the growth of cloud droplets by condensation and
coalescence in low level water clouds are reviewed. It is shown that while the entrainment of …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical formulation of collision rate and collision efficiency of hydrodynamically interacting cloud droplets in turbulent atmosphere

LP Wang, O Ayala, SE Kasprzak… - Journal of the …, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
Theoretical Formulation of Collision Rate and Collision Efficiency of Hydrodynamically
Interacting Cloud Droplets in Turbulent Atmosphere in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences …

Turbulent collision efficiency of heavy particles relevant to cloud droplets

LP Wang, O Ayala, B Rosa… - New Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The collision efficiency of sedimenting cloud droplets in a turbulent air flow is a key input
parameter in predicting the growth of cloud droplets by collision–coalescence. In this study …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopic approach to cloud droplet growth by condensation. Part II: Turbulence, clustering, and condensational growth

PA Vaillancourt, MK Yau, P Bartello… - Journal of the …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Microscopic Approach to Cloud Droplet Growth by Condensation. Part II: Turbulence, Clustering,
and Condensational Growth in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 59 Issue 24 (2002) …