On the relationship between open cellular convective cloud patterns and the spatial distribution of precipitation

Yamaguchi, T.; Feingold, G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1237-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1237-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1237-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

Research article

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05 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 05 Feb 2015

On the relationship between open cellular convective cloud patterns and the spatial distribution of precipitation

T. Yamaguchi and G. Feingold

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RC C8820: 'review of the manuscript "On the relationship between open cellular convective cloud patterns and the spatial distribution of precipitation"', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Nov 2014
- AC C10923: 'Response to Referee 1', T. Yamaguchi, 06 Jan 2015
RC C9205: 'Review of “On the relationship between open cellular convective cloud patterns and the spatial distribution of precipitation” by Yamaguchi and Feingold', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Nov 2014
- AC C10927: 'Response to Referee 2', T. Yamaguchi, 06 Jan 2015

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AR by Tak Yamaguchi on behalf of the Authors (06 Jan 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2015) by Johannes Quaas

AR by Tak Yamaguchi on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2015)

Short summary

Precipitation is necessary but insufficient for transformation to open cells from closed cells. The transformation to open cells occurs for sufficiently small droplet number concentration and/or large rain area. Both of these factors appear to be of similar importance. The distance selects the resulting state for rain regions that alone are too weak to initiate the transformation. The phase trajectory of the variance and mean cloud field properties follow one path.