Interactions between impact-induced vapor clouds and the ambient atmosphere: 2. Theoretical modeling

Interactions between impact-induced vapor clouds and the ambient atmosphere: 2. Theoretical modeling

[1] Interaction between impact-induced vapor clouds and the ambient atmosphere may play an important role in planetary evolution. In the companion study, Sugita and Schultz [2003] conducted a series of impact experiments detailing observation of this interaction process. The laboratory experiments using diatomic molecular spectroscopy provide several well-defined observational constraints on th...

Interactions between impact-induced vapor clouds and the ambient atmosphere: 1. Spectroscopic observations using diatomic molecular emission

[1] The importance of interactions between impact-induced vapor clouds and an ambient atmosphere has been widely recognized, and theoretical approaches have provided significant insights. Few experiments, however, have been done to observe directly the energy partitioning during the interactions between impact vapor clouds and the ambient atmosphere. The present study attempts to understand the...

Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and Primary Productivity

Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and Primary Productivity

Modeling Water Vapor and Clouds in an Idealized GCM

3 This paper introduces an idealized general circulation model (GCM) in which water vapor 4 and clouds are tracked as tracers, but are not allowed to affect circulation either through 5 latent heat release or cloud radiative effects. The cloud scheme includes an explicit treatment 6 of cloud microphysics and diagnoses cloud fraction from a prescribed sub-grid distribution 7 of total water. The ...