Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2363-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2363-2021
Research article
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18 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2021

Impacts of cloud microphysics parameterizations on simulated aerosol–cloud interactions for deep convective clouds over Houston

Yuwei Zhang, Jiwen Fan, Zhanqing Li, and Daniel Rosenfeld

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Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on deep convective clouds (DCCs) and precipitation are examined using both the Morrison bulk and spectral bin microphysics (SBM) schemes. With the SBM scheme, anthropogenic aerosols notably invigorate convective intensity and precipitation, causing better agreement between the simulated DCCs and observations; this effect is absent with the Morrison scheme, mainly due to limitations of the saturation adjustment approach for droplet condensation and evaporation.
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