Articles | Volume 20, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9087-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9087-2020
Research article
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31 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 31 Jul 2020

Diffusional growth of cloud droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence: DNS, scaled-up DNS, and stochastic model

Lois Thomas, Wojciech W. Grabowski, and Bipin Kumar

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AR by Wojciech W. Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (05 May 2020) by Timothy Garrett
AR by Wojciech W. Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 May 2020) by Timothy Garrett
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (31 May 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Jun 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (08 Jun 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Jun 2020) by Timothy Garrett
AR by Wojciech W. Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (29 Jun 2020) by Timothy Garrett
AR by Wojciech W. Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (30 Jun 2020)
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Short summary
This work presents an extension of a classical small-scale modeling approach, direct numerical simulation (DNS), to large computational volumes, tens and hundreds of meters on the side. Diffusional growth of cloud droplets is more significantly affected by large scales of turbulent motions because vertical velocity perturbations associated with those scales result in larger and longer-lasting supersaturation perturbations that affect the spread of the droplet spectrum.
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