Articles | Volume 20, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13217-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13217-2020
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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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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.
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