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Long-resident droplets at the stratocumulus top
Alberto de Lozar
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Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundestr. 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Lukas Muessle
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundestr. 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Estimating collision–coalescence rates from in situ observations of marine stratocumulus M. Witte et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3124
- Cloud droplet growth in shallow cumulus clouds considering 1-D and 3-D thermal radiative effects C. Klinger et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6295-2019
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- In-cloud motions shape warm-rain production in marine clouds: Evidence from multiyear observations K. Lamer et al. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2608656123
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- Cloud droplet size distribution broadening during diffusional growth: ripening amplified by deactivation and reactivation F. Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7313-2018
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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.
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