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DOI	10.5194/acp-20-10211-2020
	Size dependence in chord characteristics from simulated and observed continental shallow cumulus
	J. Griewank P.; Heus T.; P. Lareau N.; A. J. Neggers R.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1680-7316
起始页码	10211
结束页码	10230
卷号	20 期号:17
英文摘要	In this study we compare long-Term Doppler and Raman lidar observations against a full month of large eddy simulations of continental shallow cumulus clouds. The goal is to evaluate if the simulations can reproduce the mean observed vertical velocity and moisture structure of cumulus clouds and their associated subcloud circulations, as well as to establish if these properties depend on the size of the cloud.We propose methods to compare continuous chords of cloud detected from Doppler and Raman lidars with equivalent chords derived from 1D and 3D model output. While the individual chords are highly variable, composites of thousands of observed and millions of simulated chords contain a clear signal. We find that the simulations underestimate cloud size and fraction but successfully reproduce the observed structure of vertical velocity and moisture perturbations. There is a clear scaling of vertical velocity and moisture anomalies below the chords with chord size, but the moisture anomalies are only 1 % 2% higher than the horizontal mean values. The differences between the observations and simulations are smaller than the difference in sampling the modeled chords in time or space. The shape of the vertical velocity and moisture anomalies from cloud chords sampled spatially from 3D model snapshots is almost perfectly symmetric. In contrast, the chords sampled temporally from the lidar observations and 1D model output have a marked asymmetry, with stronger updrafts and higher moisture anomalies occurring earlier on. © 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	atmospheric moisture; cloud cover; cumulus; Doppler lidar; large eddy simulation; Raman spectroscopy
来源期刊	ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/247549
作者单位	University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, United States; University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	J. Griewank P.,Heus T.,P. Lareau N.,et al. Size dependence in chord characteristics from simulated and observed continental shallow cumulus[J],2020,20(17).
APA	J. Griewank P.,Heus T.,P. Lareau N.,&A. J. Neggers R..(2020).Size dependence in chord characteristics from simulated and observed continental shallow cumulus.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,20(17).
MLA	J. Griewank P.,et al."Size dependence in chord characteristics from simulated and observed continental shallow cumulus".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 20.17(2020).