Environmental sensitivities of shallow-cumulus dilution – Part 1: Selected thermodynamic conditions

Drueke, Sonja; Kirshbaum, Daniel J.; Kollias, Pavlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13217-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13217-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13217-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

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10 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 10 Nov 2020

Environmental sensitivities of shallow-cumulus dilution – Part 1: Selected thermodynamic conditions

Sonja Drueke, Daniel J. Kirshbaum, and Pavlos Kollias

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RC1: 'Review for Drueke et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jun 2020
RC2: 'review of Drueke et al., Environmental sensitivities ...', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Jul 2020
AC1: 'Responses to referee comments, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. acp-2020-336', Sonja Drueke, 20 Sep 2020

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Short summary

This numerical study provides insights into selected environmental sensitivities of shallow-cumulus dilution. Among the parameters under consideration, the dilution of the cloud cores is strongly sensitive to continentality and cloud-layer relative humidity and weakly sensitive to subcloud- and cloud-layer depths. The impacts of all four parameters are interpreted using a similarity theory of shallow cumulus and buoyancy-sorting arguments.