The radiative forcing of aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid clouds: Wrestling and embracing uncertainty

J Mülmenstädt, G Feingold - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
This article discusses some of the challenges that have limited progress in quantifying the
radiative forcing associated with aerosol–cloud interactions (ACI) in warm (liquid-water) …

tobac 1.2: towards a flexible framework for tracking and analysis of clouds in diverse datasets

M Heikenfeld, PJ Marinescu… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
We introduce tobac (Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds), a newly developed
framework for tracking and analysing individual clouds in different types of datasets, such as …

Time-dependent, non-monotonic response of warm convective cloud fields to changes in aerosol loading

G Dagan, I Koren, O Altaratz… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Large eddy simulations (LESs) with bin microphysics are used here to study cloud fields'
sensitivity to changes in aerosol loading and the time evolution of this response. Similarly to …

Dynamics and microphysics in small developing cumulus clouds

A Khain, M Pinsky, E Eytan, I Koren, O Altaratz… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study summarizes and generalizes findings from recent studies, focusing on the
connection between Cu dynamic properties, such as velocity field, entrainment/detrainment …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol effects on deep convection: the propagation of aerosol perturbations through convective cloud microphysics

M Heikenfeld, B White, L Labbouz… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of aerosols on ice-and mixed-phase processes in deep convective clouds
remains highly uncertain, and the wide range of interacting microphysical processes is still …

Shallow cumulus properties as captured by adiabatic fraction in high-resolution LES simulations

E Eytan, A Khain, M Pinsky, O Altaratz… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Shallow convective clouds are important players in Earth's energy budget and hydrological
cycle, and are abundant in the tropical and subtropical belts. They greatly contribute to the …

Observational relationship between entrainment rate and environmental relative humidity and implications for convection parameterization

C Lu, C Sun, Y Liu, GJ Zhang, Y Lin… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Entrainment rate is a critical but highly uncertain quantity in convective parameterizations;
especially, the effects of environmental relative humidity on entrainment rate are …

A statistical model for isolated convective precipitation events

C Moseley, O Henneberg… - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present a highly simplified model to describe the diurnal evolution of a convective cloud
field in idealized large eddy simulations. The life cycles of individual precipitation events are …

[HTML][HTML] Parameterization of vertical profiles of governing microphysical parameters of shallow cumulus cloud ensembles using LES with bin microphysics

P Khain, R Heiblum, U Blahak, Y Levi… - Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Parameterization of Vertical Profiles of Governing Microphysical Parameters of Shallow
Cumulus Cloud Ensembles Using LES with Bin Microphysics in: Journal of the Atmospheric …

Characterization of cumulus cloud fields using trajectories in the center of gravity versus water mass phase space: 2. Aerosol effects on warm convective clouds

RH Heiblum, O Altaratz, I Koren… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In Part I of this work a 3‐D cloud tracking algorithm and phase space of center of gravity
altitude versus cloud liquid water mass (CvM space) were introduced and described in …