Single-Column Modeling A Stratiform Cloud Parameterization for General Circulation Models
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Figure 1 summarizes the various cloud variables and their interactions. Precipitating cloud species are distinguished from non-precipitating species, and the liquid phase is distinguished from the ice phase. The size of the nonprecipitating cloud particles (which influences both the cloud radiative properties and the conversion of nonprecipitating cloud species to precipitating species) is determined by predicting both the mass and number concentrations of each species. permissible time step of a bulk cloud microphysics parameterization originally developed for mesoscale cloud models (Tripoli and Cotton 1980, Cotton et al. 1982 and 1986, Meyers et al. 1992). These approximations are
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