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Numerical Simulation Research on the Effects of the Size Distribution of Aerosols on the Droplet Spectrum with a Newly Developed Triple-Moment Bulk Scheme
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1.Key Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100029;2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049;3.Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044

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National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) Grant 2014CB441403 ; National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 41275147 ; National Key Research and Development Program of China Grant 2016YFC0209000 ; Ningxia Scientific Supporting Program Grant 2015KJHM131 National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant 2014CB441403), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41275147), National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant 2016YFC0209000), Ningxia Scientific Supporting Program (Grant 2015KJHM131)

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    Both observations and numerical simulations with bin microphysics indicated that aerosol concentrations and size distributions play an important role in cloud droplet spectrum evolution and precipitation formation. With limited prognostic variables, current bulk microphysics parameterization cannot simulate the cloud droplet spectrum evolution properly because of the abnormal broadening problem during condensation. No studies of the effect of the size distribution of aerosols on cloud droplet spectra with bulk scheme simulations have been conducted. The newly developed triple-moment bulk scheme includes an additional spectrum shape parameter and overcomes the abnormal broadening problem, which can be better applied to simulate the main characteristics of cloud droplet spectrum evolution than double-moment schemes. To analyze the effect of the size distribution of aerosols on the cloud droplet spectrum evolution using triple-moment microphysical bulk scheme IAP-LACS which has been developed by Key Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms (LACS) of Insitute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP). This work focuses on the effects of three parameters of the size distribution of aerosols (i.e., number concentration, geometric radius, and standard deviation) on the cloud droplet spectrum evolution using WRF-LES ideal simulations. The results of the numerical sensitivity tests for the three parameters show that the newly developed triple-moment water vapor growth scheme coupled with the explicit aerosol activation process is a powerful tool to simulate the effect of the size distribution of aerosols on the cloud droplet spectrum evolution. Aerosol number concentration significantly affects the shape of the cloud droplet spectrum. A high aerosol number concentration results in a narrow droplet spectrum with activated droplets and small average size. By contrast, a low aerosol number concentration produces less droplets but with large radius. Enlarging the geometric radius, which means moving the aerosol spectrum toward a large particle size, leads to cloud droplets with a large size. Notably, the standard deviation plays a less important role in the cloud droplet spectrum than the aerosol number concentration and geometric radius.

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邓玮,孙继明,雷恒池.2019.三参数云微物理方案中气溶胶谱函数对云滴谱影响的数值模拟研究[J].气候与环境研究,24(6):693-710. DENG Wei, SUM Jiming, LEI Hengchi.2019.Numerical Simulation Research on the Effects of the Size Distribution of Aerosols on the Droplet Spectrum with a Newly Developed Triple-Moment Bulk Scheme[J]. Climatic and Environmental Research (in Chinese],24(6):693-710.

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  • Received:May 25,2018
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  • Online: December 23,2019
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