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Aerosol effects on electrification and lightning discharges in a multicell thunderstorm simulated by the WRF-ELEC model
Mengyu Sun
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dongxia Liu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
Xiushu Qie
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Edward R. Mansell
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Yoav Yair
School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya,
Herzliya, Israel
Alexandre O. Fierro
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Department of Forecasting Models, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), Vienna, Austria
Shanfeng Yuan
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
Zhixiong Chen
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dongfang Wang
Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment
Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
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By acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), increasing aerosol loading tends to enhance lightning activity through microphysical processes. We investigated the aerosol effects on the development of a thunderstorm. A two-moment bulk microphysics scheme and bulk lightning model were coupled in the WRF Model to simulate a multicell thunderstorm. Sensitivity experiments show that the enhancement of lightning activity under polluted conditions results from an increasing ice crystal number.
By acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), increasing aerosol loading tends to enhance...
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