DTIC ADA574045: Aerosol Cloud Drizzle Turbulence Interactions pdf

DTIC ADA574045: Aerosol Cloud Drizzle Turbulence Interactions

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The long term-goal of this project is to provide an improved description and understanding of the effects of aerosol-cloud interactions and drizzle and entrainment processes in boundary layer clouds for the purpose of developing, improving, and evaluating cloud and boundary layer representations in LES, mesoscale and large-scale forecast models. The scientific objectives are to: 1) document the structure and characteristics of entrainment circulations in marine stratocumulus and fair-weather-cumuli, 2) characterize the vertical distribution of drizzle and how it relates to cloud and mesoscale circulations; 3) investigate the relative role of cloud thickness, cloud turbulence intensity, and aerosols on precipitation production; 4) study the processing of aerosols by cloud processes; and 5) explore mass, moisture, and aerosol transports across interfacial regions at cloud base and at the capping inversion

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 9/30/2012
• Year: 2012
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, , ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE MIAMI FL, *AEROSOLS, *BOUNDARY LAYER, *CLOUDS, *INTERACTIONS, CUMULUS CLOUDS, ENTRAINMENT, FORECASTING, RAIN, THICKNESS, TURBULENCE

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