Long-resident droplets at the stratocumulus top

de Lozar, Alberto; Muessle, Lukas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6563-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

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VERDI – Vertical Distribution of Ice in Arctic Clouds...

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6563-2016

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Research article

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30 May 2016

Research article |

| 30 May 2016

Long-resident droplets at the stratocumulus top

Alberto de Lozar and Lukas Muessle

Data sets

Primary data and statistics used for the paper "Long-resident droplets at the stratocumulus top" Alberto de Lozar http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-4BA3-4

Short summary

We follow 1 billion cloud droplets in numerical simulations, which are based on observations of Arctic stratocumuli from the VERDI campaign. Small-scale turbulence allows some droplets to escape the large-scale convective movements, with the result that they can spend a long time at cloud top. Long-resident droplets can grow well above the average due to radiative cooling and collisions. This can have consequences for rain models that assume that all droplets spend the same time in the cloud.