scholarly journals Distance-Scaled Water Concentrations versus Mass-Median Drop Size, Temperature, and Altitude in Supercooled Clouds

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 2087-2106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard K. Jeck
Keyword(s):  
Stable Condition ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Freezing Level ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Stratiform Clouds ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
Droplet Sizes ◽  
New Statistics ◽  
Mass Median

Abstract About 28 000 nautical miles (n mi) of select in-flight measurements of liquid water content (LWC), droplet sizes, temperature, and other variables in supercooled clouds from a variety of research projects over portions of North America, Europe, and the northern oceans have been compiled into a computerized database for obtaining new statistics on the ranges, frequency of occurrence, and interrelationships of the variables. The LWCs are averaged over uniform cloud intervals of variable length. LWC probabilities are then generated as a function of averaging distance, temperature, droplet mass-median diameter (MMD), altitude, and freezing-level height. These variously scaled LWCs (different averaging intervals from 1 s to 200 n mi) are easily accommodated by distance-based graphing (LWC versus averaging distance). These graphs provide realistic LWCs for modeling, and they can serve as a common reference for comparing LWC measurements over any averaging scale. Maximum recorded LWCs are about 1.6 g m−3 in stratiform clouds and about 5 g m−3 in convective clouds, both over short (<0.5 km) distances. A sharp MMD mode near 15 μm appears to be a stable condition in which the LWCs can be the largest and extend the farthest. The larger the MMD above the mode, the shorter its spatial extent will be, the rarer its occurrence, and the lower the maximum LWC that can be present.

scholarly journals Robust relations between CCN and the vertical evolution of cloud drop size distribution in deep convective clouds

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1661-1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Freud ◽  
D. Rosenfeld ◽  
M. O. Andreae ◽  
A. A. Costa ◽  
P. Artaxo
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Drop Size ◽  
Cloud Condensation Nuclei ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Cloud Drop ◽  
Cloud Droplets ◽  
Freezing Level ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Warm Rain ◽  
Drop Size Distributions

Abstract. In-situ measurements in convective clouds (up to the freezing level) over the Amazon basin show that smoke from deforestation fires prevents clouds from precipitating until they acquire a vertical development of at least 4 km, compared to only 1–2 km in clean clouds. The average cloud depth required for the onset of warm rain increased by ~350 m for each additional 100 cloud condensation nuclei per cm3 at a super-saturation of 0.5% (CCN0.5%). In polluted clouds, the diameter of modal liquid water content grows much slower with cloud depth (at least by a factor of ~2), due to the large number of droplets that compete for available water and to the suppressed coalescence processes. Contrary to what other studies have suggested, we did not observe this effect to reach saturation at 3000 or more accumulation mode particles per cm3. The CCN0.5% concentration was found to be a very good predictor for the cloud depth required for the onset of warm precipitation and other microphysical factors, leaving only a secondary role for the updraft velocities in determining the cloud drop size distributions. The effective radius of the cloud droplets (re) was found to be a quite robust parameter for a given environment and cloud depth, showing only a small effect of partial droplet evaporation from the cloud's mixing with its drier environment. This supports one of the basic assumptions of satellite analysis of cloud microphysical processes: the ability to look at different cloud top heights in the same region and regard their re as if they had been measured inside one well developed cloud. The dependence of re on the adiabatic fraction decreased higher in the clouds, especially for cleaner conditions, and disappeared at re≥~10 μm. We propose that droplet coalescence, which is at its peak when warm rain is formed in the cloud at re=~10 μm, continues to be significant during the cloud's mixing with the entrained air, cancelling out the decrease in re due to evaporation.

scholarly journals Robust relations between CCN and the vertical evolution of cloud drop size distribution in deep convective clouds

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 10155-10195 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Freud ◽  
D. Rosenfeld ◽  
M. O. Andreae ◽  
A. A. Costa ◽  
P. Artaxo
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Drop Size ◽  
Cloud Condensation Nuclei ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Cloud Drop ◽  
Cloud Droplets ◽  
Freezing Level ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Warm Rain ◽  
Drop Size Distributions

Abstract. In-situ measurements in convective clouds (up to the freezing level) over the Amazon basin show that smoke from deforestation fires prevents clouds from precipitating until they acquire a vertical development of at least 4 km, compared to only 1–2 km in clean clouds. The average cloud depth required for the onset of warm rain increased by ~350 m for each additional 100 cloud condensation nuclei per cm3 at a super-saturation of 0.5% (CCN0.5%). In polluted clouds, the diameter of modal liquid water content grows much slower with cloud depth (at least by a factor of ~2), due to the large number of droplets that compete for available water and to the suppressed coalescence processes. Contrary to what other studies have suggested, we did not observe this effect to reach saturation at 3000 or more accumulation mode particles per cm3. The CCN0.5% concentration was found to be a very good predictor for the cloud depth required for the onset of warm precipitation and other microphysical factors, leaving only a secondary role for the updraft velocities in determining the cloud drop size distributions. The effective radius of the cloud droplets (re) was found to be a quite robust parameter for a given environment and cloud depth, showing only a small effect of partial droplet evaporation from the cloud's mixing with its drier environment. This supports one of the basic assumptions of satellite analysis of cloud microphysical processes: the ability to look at different cloud top heights in the same region and regard their re as if they had been measured inside one well developed cloud. The dependence of re on the adiabatic fraction decreased higher in the clouds, especially for cleaner conditions, and disappeared at re≥~10 µm. We propose that droplet coalescence, which is at its peak when warm rain is formed in the cloud at re~10 µm, continues to be significant during the cloud's mixing with the entrained air, canceling out the decrease in re due to evaporation.

Aircraft Applications of Insecticides in East Africa. VI.—Applications of a coarse Aerosol containning DDT to control the Tsetse Flies, Glossina morsitans Westw., Glossina swynnertoni Aust. and Glossina pallidipes Aust.

1954 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Hocking ◽  
D. Yeo ◽  
D. G. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Random Effects ◽  
Glossina Pallidipes ◽  
Tsetse Flies ◽  
Glossina Morsitans ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
Coarse Aerosol ◽  
Savannah Woodland ◽  
Mass Median ◽  
Glossina Swynnertoni ◽  
Mass Median Diameter

An experiment is described where applications of a coarse aerosol were made to savannah woodland containing the tsetse flies, Glossina moritans Westw., G. swynnertoni Aust. and G. pallidipes Aust.Seven applications were made, each at a nominal dosage of 0·25 lb. of technical DDT per acre and 0·25 gallons of solution per acre. The applications in any particular part of the treaed woodland covered an interval of 90 days, or rather more than two pupal periods.The coarse aerosol was produced by emitting the insecticidal solution under pressure through fine nozzles fitted to a boom. It had a mass median diameter of approximately 60 microns, and droplet dismeters varied from a few microns to approximately 200 microns.The population of G. pallidipes was so drastically reduced that it has subsequently dies out. The reduction of G. morsitans was approximately 95 per cent. The differences between the reductions are attributed mainly to differences between the ease with which the three species can be killed. It is pointed out that this is not necessarily equivalent to differences in susceptibility.Comparisons are made with previous experiments, and the different results of the various experiments are difficult to explian satisfactory. The increased cover in savannah areas during the leafy period may have reduced the effectiveness of the applications, and the total periods covered by the various series of applications were probably also important. Random effects, leading to ineffective treatments, may also be important.Costs are discussed.

scholarly journals Coupling of Precipitation and Cloud Structures in Oceanic Extratropical Cyclones to Large-Scale Moisture Flux Convergence

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (23) ◽  
pp. 9565-9584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Wong ◽  
Catherine M. Naud ◽  
Brian H. Kahn ◽  
Longtao Wu ◽  
Eric J. Fetzer
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Moisture Flux ◽  
Extratropical Cyclones ◽  
Flux Divergence ◽  
Moisture Flux Convergence ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Moisture Advection ◽  
Deep Convective Clouds ◽  
Stratiform Clouds ◽  
High Level

Precipitation (from TMPA) and cloud structures (from MODIS) in extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are modulated by phases of large-scale moisture flux convergence (from MERRA-2) in the sectors of ETCs, which are studied in a new coordinate system with directions of both surface warm fronts (WFs) and surface cold fronts (CFs) fixed. The phase of moisture flux convergence is described by moisture dynamical convergence Qcnvg and moisture advection Qadvt. Precipitation and occurrence frequencies of deep convective clouds are sensitive to changes in Qcnvg, while moisture tendency is sensitive to changes in Qadvt. Increasing Qcnvg and Qadvt during the advance of the WF is associated with increasing occurrences of both deep convective and high-level stratiform clouds. A rapid decrease in Qadvt with a relatively steady Qcnvg during the advance of the CF is associated with high-level cloud distribution weighting toward deep convective clouds. Behind the CF (cold sector or area with polar air intrusion), the moisture flux is divergent with abundant low- and midlevel clouds. From deepening to decaying stages, the pre-WF and WF sectors experience high-level clouds shifting to more convective and less stratiform because of decreasing Qadvt with relatively steady Qcnvg, and the CF experiences shifting from high-level to midlevel clouds. Sectors of moisture flux divergence are less influenced by cyclone evolution. Surface evaporation is the largest in the cold sector and the CF during the deepening stage. Deepening cyclones are more efficient in poleward transport of water vapor.

The Possible Site of Action of Sodium Cromoglycate Assessed by Exercise Challenge

1974 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Godfrey ◽  
E. Zeidifard ◽  
K. Brown ◽  
J. H. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Cromoglycate ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
Post Exercise ◽  
Asthmatic Patients ◽  
Exercise Challenge ◽  
Site Of Action ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
Mass Median ◽  
Spinning Disc ◽  
Mass Median Diameter

1. The protective effect of different particle sizes of sodium cromoglycate (SCG) was assessed by exercise challenge in nine asthmatic patients. 2. SCG particles of 11·7 μm or 2·0 μm mass median diameter were generated by a spinning disc and compared with lactose placebo particles. The drugs were given 10 min before a 6 min run on a treadmill. 3. The post-exercise bronchoconstriction caused a 48% fall in peak flow rate in the placebo test, a 41% fall after the large SCG particles and a 20% fall after the small particles. 4. It is concluded that the site of action of SCG is probably in the smallest airways.

Aircraft Applications of Insecticides in East Africa. II.—An experimental Attempt to Produce a Fly-free Corridor through a Belt of Tsetse-infested Woodland

1953 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Hocking ◽  
H. C. M. Parr ◽  
D. Yeo ◽  
P. A. Robins
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Wind Direction ◽  
Tsetse Fly ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
Savannah Woodland ◽  
Mass Median ◽  
Mass Median Diameter

An experimental attempt was made to produce a fly-free corridor through a belt of savannah woodland containing the tsetse fly G. swynnertoni.An area two miles wide and four miles long was treated with a coarse spray of a 4·6 per cent, w/v solution of DDT in Shell Diesoline. The dosage per application was 0·5 gallons per acre, and seven applications were made, at intervals of approximately two weeks, so that the treatment covered two pupal periods.The fly density had fallen to a very low level by the end of the experiment, and the area remained virtually free from flies for the subsequent two months. An examination of the data suggests, however, that the fly population was maintained largely by immigrant flies, and was certainly subject to wide variations, and it seems certain that the effect of the applications would have been considerably less upon a stable, self-supporting population.The drop spectrum of the ground deposit had a mass median diameter of 0·35 mm., and the recovery of insecticide in the area was approximately 60 per cent. Leeward and under sides of obstacles did not receive a dose although in some cases dosages were obtained on apparently leeward sides, probably because of local reversals of wind direction.

The Correlation of Drop-Size Distributions in Fuel Nozzle Sprays—Part I: The Drop-Size/Volume-Fraction Distribution

1977 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Drop Size ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
Fraction Distribution ◽  
Fuel Nozzle ◽  
Drop Size Distributions ◽  
Mass Median ◽  
Mass Median Diameter

The paper presents data on the drop-size/volume-fraction distributions of sprays observed with a large number of gas-turbine fuel nozzles of different types including both pressure and air-atomizers, using a range of fuel viscosities, at a variety of operating conditions. The data were obtained by both optical and wax-droplet methods. It is shown that a universal nondimensional correlation can be established for all the fuel nozzles when the drop-size is normalized to the mass median diameter. The correlation enables prediction of the drop-size/volume-fraction distribution for a spray given only the mass median or Sauter mean diameter.

scholarly journals Theoretical investigation of mixing in warm clouds – Part 2: Homogeneous mixing

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 9255-9272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pinsky ◽  
Alexander Khain ◽  
Alexei Korolev ◽  
Leehi Magaritz-Ronen
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Water ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Size Distributions ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Dimensional Parameter ◽  
Droplet Concentration ◽  
Droplet Sizes ◽  
Droplet Size Distributions ◽  
Analytical Expressions

Abstract. Evolution of monodisperse and polydisperse droplet size distributions (DSD) during homogeneous mixing is analyzed. Time-dependent universal analytical expressions for supersaturation and liquid water content are derived. For an initial monodisperse DSD, these quantities are shown to depend on a sole non-dimensional parameter. The evolution of moments and moment-related functions in the course of homogeneous evaporation of polydisperse DSD is analyzed using a parcel model.It is shown that the classic conceptual scheme, according to which homogeneous mixing leads to a decrease in droplet mass at constant droplet concentration, is valid only in cases of monodisperse or initially very narrow polydisperse DSD. In cases of wide polydisperse DSD, mixing and successive evaporation lead to a decrease of both mass and concentration, so the characteristic droplet sizes remain nearly constant. As this feature is typically associated with inhomogeneous mixing, we conclude that in cases of an initially wide DSD at cloud top, homogeneous mixing is nearly indistinguishable from inhomogeneous mixing.

scholarly journals Chemistry of riming: the retention of organic and inorganic atmospheric trace constituents

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 9717-9732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Jost ◽  
Miklós Szakáll ◽  
Karoline Diehl ◽  
Subir K. Mitra ◽  
Stephan Borrmann
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Liquid Water Content ◽  
Growth Surface ◽  
Phase Zone ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Cloud Models ◽  
Trace Constituents ◽  
Semi Empirical

Abstract. During free fall in clouds, ice hydrometeors such as snowflakes and ice particles grow effectively by riming, i.e., the accretion of supercooled droplets. Volatile atmospheric trace constituents dissolved in the supercooled droplets may remain in ice during freezing or may be released back to the gas phase. This process is quantified by retention coefficients. Once in the ice phase the trace constituents may be vertically redistributed by scavenging and subsequent precipitation or by evaporation of these ice hydrometeors at high altitudes. Retention coefficients of the most dominant carboxylic acids and aldehydes found in cloud water were investigated in the Mainz vertical wind tunnel under dry-growth (surface temperature less than 0 °C) riming conditions which are typically prevailing in the mixed-phase zone of convective clouds (i.e., temperatures from −16 to −7 °C and a liquid water content (LWC) of 0. 9 ± 0. 2 g m−3). The mean retention coefficients of formic and acetic acids are found to be 0. 68 ± 0. 09 and 0. 63 ± 0. 19. Oxalic and malonic acids as well as formaldehyde show mean retention coefficients of 0. 97 ± 0. 06, 0. 98 ± 0. 08, and 0. 97 ± 0. 11, respectively. Application of a semi-empirical model on the present and earlier wind tunnel measurements reveals that retention coefficients can be well interpreted by the effective Henry's law constant accounting for solubility and dissociation. A parameterization for the retention coefficients has been derived for substances whose aqueous-phase kinetics are fast compared to mass transport timescales. For other cases, the semi-empirical model in combination with a kinetic approach is suited to determine the retention coefficients. These may be implemented in high-resolution cloud models.

scholarly journals Climatological Behavior of Precipitating Clouds in the Northeast Region of Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayana Santos Araújo Palharini ◽  
Daniel Alejandro Vila
Keyword(s):  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ◽  
Precipitation Radar ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
Strong Signal ◽  
Deep Convective Clouds ◽  
Stratiform Clouds ◽  
Precipitating Clouds ◽  
Data Period

This study aims to analyze the climatological classification of precipitating clouds in the Northeast of Brazil using the radar on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Thus, for this research a time series of 15 years of satellite data (period 1998–2012) was analyzed in order to identify what types of clouds produce precipitation estimated by Precipitation Radar (PR) and how often these clouds occur. From the results of this work it was possible to estimate the average relative frequency of each type of cloud present in weather systems that influence the Northeast of Brazil. In general, the stratiform clouds and shallow convective clouds are the most frequent in this region, but the associated rainfall is not as abundant as precipitation caused by deep convective clouds. It is also seen that a strong signal of shallow convective clouds modulates rainfall over the coastal areas of Northeast of Brazil and adjacent ocean. In this scenario, the main objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the patterns of cloud types associated with precipitation and building a climatological analysis from the classification of clouds.

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