Interactive comment on “On the CCN [de]activation nonlinearities” by S. Arabas and S. Shima
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The authors discuss cloud droplet activation and deactivation in terms of saddle-node bifurcation. By doing so they can employ a nonlinear dynamic approach to study the properties of such processes. Specifically, they approximate the drop growth by diffusion equation to a normal form of a saddle-node bifurcation (df/dt = a + fËĘ2) and therefore they could use the properties of such form to study hysteresis and catastrophe behavior. The approach and the mathematical insights are very interesting but in order to make this paper accessible to readers from cloud physics, the authors should be much more generous in the details they provide in the mathematical derivations, and invest efforts in translating the mathematical insights to physical ones.
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Interactive comment on “On the CCN [de]activation nonlinearities” by S. Arabas and S. Shima
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