Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4059-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4059-2021
Research article
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17 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2021

Cloud droplet diffusional growth in homogeneous isotropic turbulence: bin microphysics versus Lagrangian super-droplet simulations

Wojciech W. Grabowski and Lois Thomas

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This paper presents a modeling study that investigates the impact of cloud turbulence on the diffusional growth of cloud droplets and compares modeling results to analytic solutions published in the past. The focus is on comparing the two microphysics modeling methodologies – the Eulerian bin microphysics and Lagrangian particle-based microphysics – and exposing their limitations.
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