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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6761-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6761-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Quantifying the effect of aerosol on vertical velocity and effective terminal velocity in warm convective clouds
Guy Dagan
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Orit Altaratz
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Hail Event Detection Using Power Spectrum Characteristics of Coherent Doppler Lidar: A Case Study in Hefei K. Wu et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18071072
- Atmospheric energy budget response to idealized aerosol perturbation in tropical cloud systems G. Dagan et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4523-2020
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- An Unknown Maximum Lag‐Correlation Between Rainfall and Aerosols at 140–160 Minutes P. Alpert et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089334
- Global evidence of aerosol-induced invigoration in marine cumulus clouds A. Douglas & T. L'Ecuyer https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15103-2021
- Sub‐Tropical Aerosols Enhance Tropical Cloudiness—A Remote Aerosol‐Cloud Lifetime Effect G. Dagan https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003368
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In this paper we distill the problem of aerosol–cloud interactions to an interplay between the system's two characteristic vertical velocities, i.e., the air vertical velocity and the collective droplets fall velocity. We show using theoretical considerations and cloud-resolving models that the relations between the two velocities are extremely sensitive to the cloud field's thermodynamics and microphysical properties.
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