Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing

M Christensen, A Gettelman, J Cermak… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-
day radiative forcing due to human activities. The non-linearity of cloud-state changes to …

Diverse dispersion effects and parameterization of relative dispersion in urban fog in eastern China

Y Wang, C Lu, S Niu, J Lv, X Jia, X Xu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding cloud droplet relative dispersion is critical for mitigating the confounding
effect of aerosol‐cloud interactions in the simulation of the global climatic patterns. Diverse …

The role of turbulent fluctuations in aerosol activation and cloud formation

P Prabhakaran, ASM Shawon… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Aerosol indirect effects are one of the leading contributors to cloud radiative properties
relevant to climate. Aerosol particles become cloud droplets when the ambient relative …

Extensive soot compaction by cloud processing from laboratory and field observations

J Bhandari, S China, KK Chandrakar, G Kinney… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Soot particles form during combustion of carbonaceous materials and impact climate and air
quality. When freshly emitted, they are typically fractal-like aggregates. After atmospheric …

Impact of entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations on droplet size distributions in a cumulus cloud: An investigation using Lagrangian microphysics with a subgrid …

KK Chandrakar, WW Grabowski… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Entrainment mixing and turbulent fluctuations critically impact cloud droplet size distributions
(DSDs) in cumulus clouds. This problem is investigated via a new sophisticated modeling …

[HTML][HTML] Broadening of cloud droplet spectra through eddy hopping: Turbulent entraining parcel simulations

GC Abade, WW Grabowski… - Journal of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Broadening of Cloud Droplet Spectra through Eddy Hopping: Turbulent Entraining Parcel
Simulations in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 75 Issue 10 (2018) Jump to …

[HTML][HTML] Supersaturation fluctuations during the early stage of cumulus formation

H Siebert, RA Shaw - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Supersaturation Fluctuations during the Early Stage of Cumulus Formation in: Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences Volume 74 Issue 4 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

DNS and LES for simulating stratocumulus: Better together

JP Mellado, CS Bretherton, B Stevens… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that combining direct numerical simulation (DNS) with large‐eddy simulation
(LES) and field studies could accelerate current lines of stratocumulus research. LES allows …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence and microphysics in the Pi Chamber

T MacMillan, RA Shaw, WH Cantrell, DH Richter - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The Pi Chamber is a cloud chamber at Michigan Technological University that utilizes moist
turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard flow between two temperature-controlled, saturated plates to …

Cloud microphysical implications for marine cloud brightening: The importance of the seeded particle size distribution

F Hoffmann, G Feingold - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a viable way to counteract global
warming by artificially increasing the albedo and lifetime of clouds via deliberate seeding of …