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Pubs.GISS: Yao and Del Genio 1989: Effects of cumulus entrainment and multiple cloud types

control run with arbitrarily specified updraft mass flux is compared to experiments that predict cumulus mass flux on the

E. Winstead, 2024: Measurement report: Cloud and environmental properties associated with aggregated shallow marine cumulus and cumulus

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of parameterization biases in single-column model CAM5 simulations of shallow cumulus. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos

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absorbing aerosol layers on the transition of stratocumulus to trade cumulus clouds. Atmos. Chem. Phys

summer and fall months under the presence of anticyclonic conditions. Cumulus clouds are the

large-scale smoke-circulation interactions strongly modulate the southeast Atlantic stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition. Atmos. Chem. Phys

of the developing storm in terms of circulation, precipitation, vertical motion, cumulus heating rates, and

level cloud cover and reflectance. We use satellite observations that discriminate stratocumulus from shallow cumulus clouds to separately

gases. It has been suggested that sinking air in the regions surrounding deep cumulus clouds will dry the

the 1990s and 2050s. Results show that the choice of cumulus convection parameterization is the

in the polarized reflectance. RSP's observations also provide constraints on the cumulus cloud's 2D cross

of the ISCCP-D thin stratocumulus WS between the ISCCP-H shallow cumulus and stratocumulus

under the influence of the Azores high pressure system, while shallow cumulus clouds are sustained by

than the observed peak. One possible reason is insufficient sensitivity of their cumulus parameterizations to the

of the models analysed have a good representation of trade cumulus in the

cloud water and thus affects the reflectance of bright tropical cumulus anvils. Drizzle formation in

after a 3 hr interval. Some WSs, such as mid-latitude storms, tropical convection, cumulus congestus, and shallow

mesoscale perturbations, using a dataset generated by a three-dimensional, high-resolution cumulus ensemble model with west

lower surface temperatures. The results demonstrate the importance of improving cumulus parameterizations in regional

0.35 vs 0.26), at least partially because the model-simulated deep, penetrating cumulus clous occur too frequently

of individual patches varied linearly with the size of these patches. Thus, cumulus parameterization schemes need to

resolution (1.3 km and 0.6 km), is used to simulate cumulus updraft speeds associated with

models. Three 60 h case study periods span the temporal evolution of cumulus, stratiform, and drizzling

simulations (LES) of marine boundary-layer clouds based on case studies from three trade-cumulus field projects. The

motions exist. Denser precipitating cloud systems are expected to exhibit more horizontal structure with cumulus-style dynamics more likely

convective and midlatitude storm clouds dominate ascending regions. In descending regions, shallow cumulus is more frequent in

MJO transition from shallow to deep convection and to constrain GCM cumulus parameterizations. Composites of

in the subtropical stratocumulus regions while 10-m winds dominate in shallow cumulus regions but in

the implied increase in small-scale mixing in low latitudes is cumulus convection. Get PDF (521

the underlying layer and tend to enhance stratocumulus clouds but may reduce cumulus clouds. AAs can also

This new 4ICE scheme was developed and tested in the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model (GCE) for

moisture flux from the subcloud to the stratocumulus cloud layer by cumulus convection exhibits a

in 2006. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 120 , no. 22, 11743-11759, doi:10.1002/2015JD023402. Recent cumulus and turbulence

direct radiative effects; (2) Exp C- Like Exp N but with aerosol effects on liquid-phase cumulus and stratus

the cyclones from both reanalyses suggests that the parameterization of shallow cumulus clouds may contribute in

over ocean, accompanied by a comparable increase of altocumulus and cumulus clouds; over land, there

cloudiness conditions. Low clouds are the dominant cloud type, with stratocumulus and cumulus occurring regularly. Approximately half

precipitation mechanisms: large-scale supersaturation and a parameterization of subgrid-scale cumulus convection. Results are presented

a small ensemble of simulations with physics perturbations to the cumulus and planetary

SST, accompanied by a large decrease in cloud fraction, whereas over trade cumulus (Cu) regions, cloud fraction

mean changes of the global surface longwave radiative fluxes are caused by stratocumulus, cumulus, and altostratus

are lower over stratocumulus regimes and higher over the broken trade wind cumulus regimes. The leading

and other processes on Jupiter. In this scenario we calculate the cumulus mass flux consistent with

cloud fraction by up to 0.20, particularly in the shallow cumulus regions. The tropical

Chepfer, 2023: An observation-based method to assess tropical stratocumulus and shallow cumulus clouds and feedbacks

Lawson, 2025: Warm-phase microphysical evolution in large eddy simulations of tropical cumulus congestus: Constraining drop size

and stratocumulus decks that produce gray, overcast days and the puffy cotton-ball cumulus clouds that dot the

Space Administration, pp. 13-19. Del Genio, A.D. , and M.-S. Yao , 1993: Efficient cumulus parameterization for long

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domain size and numerical resolution on the simulation of shallow cumulus convection . J. Atmos. Sci

Wu , A.B. Wolf , Y. Chen , M.-S. Yao , and D. Kim, 2015: Constraints on cumulus parameterization from simulations of

E. Winstead, 2024: Measurement report: Cloud and environmental properties associated with aggregated shallow marine cumulus and cumulus

C. Emde, A.S. Ackerman , M. Ottaviani , and A.P. Wasilewski , 2016: Derivation of cumulus cloud dimensions and

Chepfer, 2023: An observation-based method to assess tropical stratocumulus and shallow cumulus clouds and feedbacks

Atmosphere-Ocean Systems: Application to Sensitivity Analyses of Aerosol Polarimetry Bing Ye Cumulus Anvil Cloud Properties, CAPE

Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO

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