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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2019.40.2.109

A Review of Precipitation Susceptibility in Warm Boundary Layer Clouds  

Jung, Eunsil (School of Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.40, no.2, 2019 , pp. 109-118 More about this Journal
Abstract
Cloud-aerosol interactions are considered to be one of the most important forcing mechanisms in the climate system. However, there is considerable disagreement on the magnitude and even on the sign of how aerosol perturbations affect cloud fraction and lifetime. Furthermore, aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation are not readily separable from the effects of meteorology. This review paper summarizes the study of precipitation susceptibility $S_o$, which qualifies how aerosol perturbations alter the magnitude of the precipitation rate (R) while minimizing the effects of macrophysical factors such as cloud depth (H) and liquid water path (LWP). The analysis shows that the precipitation susceptibility $S_o$ for the warm marine boundary layer clouds is insensitive to aerosol perturbations at low LWP (equivalently low H). However, R decreases as aerosols increase at intermediate LWP. This is because aerosols act as cloud seed and produce numerous small-sized particles, which impede the collision and coalescence process that leads to precipitation. At high LWP, $S_o$ decreases with increasing LWP as there are enough water contents in the clouds. The LWP or H dependent $S_o$ behavior differs depending on the predominant cloud physics processes in the clouds.
Keywords
precipitation susceptibility; cloud-aerosol interaction; warm cloud; cloud thickness; liquid water path;
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