Modeling heterogeneous sulphate production in maritime stratiform clouds

Quantifying the Impact of Dust on Heterogeneous Ice Generation in Midlevel Supercooled Stratiform Clouds

Cloud radar Doppler spectra in drizzling stratiform clouds: 2. Observations and microphysical modeling of drizzle evolution

[1] In part I, the influence of cloud microphysics and dynamics on the shape of cloud radar Doppler spectra in warm stratiform clouds was discussed. The traditional analysis of radar Doppler moments was extended to include skewness and kurtosis as additional descriptors of the Doppler spectrum. Here, a short climatology of observed Doppler spectra moments as a function of the radar reflectivity...

Cloud radar Doppler spectra in drizzling stratiform clouds: 1. Forward modeling and remote sensing applications

[1] Several aspects of spectral broadening and drizzle growth in shallow liquid clouds remain not well understood. Detailed, cloud‐scale observations of microphysics and dynamics are essential to guide and evaluate corresponding modeling efforts. Profiling, millimeter‐wavelength (cloud) radars can provide such observations. In particular, the first three moments of the recorded cloud radar Dopp...

Drizzle in Stratiform Boundary Layer Clouds. Part II: Microphysical Aspects

This is the second of two observational papers examining drizzle in stratiform boundary layer clouds. Part I details the vertical and horizontal structure of cloud and drizzle parameters, including some bulk microphysical variables. In this paper, the focus is on the in situ size-resolved microphysical measurements, particularly of drizzle drops (r 20 m). Layer-averaged size distributions of dr...

Real-time Realistic Illumination and Shading of Stratiform Clouds

Realistic rendering of clouds involves solving the complex interaction of light within the cloud and with its environment. Interactive methods achieve efficient cloud rendering by ignoring several lighting effects. However, these effects are visually important, and removing them strongly reduces realism. We present a novel approach for capturing the important effects of multiple anisotropic Mie...