Sentences with phrase «microphysics of»

The Atmospheric Science Group at Manchester works in the areas of the microphysics of clouds and aerosol, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, radiative transfer, the deposition, conversion and transport of atmospheric pollution, thunderstorm electrification, atmospheric dynamics and remote sensing.

For the disciplinary matrix of climate science, no one source is sufficient, but it should include some of the books I have commented on before: «Modern Thermodynamics» by Kondepudi and Prigogine; «Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere» by Ambaum; «Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Microphysics of Clouds» by Khvorostyanov and Curry (that is a thick, dense, tough slog, let me warn you!)

Nor is this a significant point in the microphysics of clouds.

Also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Hammel received the Los Alamos Fellows Prize in 1995 for his frequently cited work elucidating the microphysics of copper - based high - temperature superconductors.

Scientists have some idea of how aerosols change a cloud's inner workings but the microphysics of charge separation and lightning generation are still not fully understood.

This new study then looked at how changes in microphysics of the air - sea interface can make a storm grow or weaken in intensity.

Besides its atmospheric chemistry, Perlan 2 will carry instruments to study turbulence in stratospheric mountain waves, and to explore the microphysics of interactions between mountain waves and polar meteorology, which ultimately affect weather variability.

Not exact matches

P. K. Feyerabend, «Problems of Microphysics», in R. G. Colodny (ed.)

In microphysics Planck postulated in 1900 that electromagnetic energy is emitted in quantised forms and its study must rely on statistical probabilitiesinstead of classical laws.

(f) A problem remains of determining the relation between the entities of microphysics and perceptible macroevents.

From the standpoint of psychology, as well as from that of microphysics, Whitehead's conceptual system seems to have difficulties that may not have been apparent some years ago.6

We will also discuss the theory of planetary physical processes (e.g. circulation, dynamics, thermodynamics, radiative transfer, cloud microphysics) and review the current status of the modelling of planetary atmospheres in order to calculate observables such as light curves.

Parameterizations of cloud microphysics, cumulus clouds, and aerosol - cloud interactions in regional / global climate models

Iacobellis, S.F., G.M. McFarquhar, D.L. Mitchell, and R.C.J. Somerville, 2003: The sensitivity of radiative fluxes to parameterized cloud microphysics.

The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) experiment in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multi-scale models can be improved.

However he does it, he should perhaps desist from spending time on his latest aquisition (apparently that is «Everything Anyone Would Ever Want To Know About Cloud Microphysics» by Khvorostyanov & Curry which isn't exactly a light read) and instead do us lesser mortals the courtesy of explaining himself.

Radiative transfer, aerosol formation, some aspects of cloud microphysics, ocean diffusion etc. — but the real world has many good experiments that the numerical models can be evaluated against (some mentioned above).

Here is an example of a changing entropy pattern, just like the increase in hurricane intensity, brought about by microphysics changes which have occurred due directly to increases of CO2 changing the CONDUCTIVITY of oceans.

Those clouds will find more intense microphysics changes near the negative aspect of the capacitive coupling — namely on the ocean surface, given that the ionosphere is positively charged by thunderstorms globally.

Variation in the ultraviolet part of solar radiation modulates photochemistry in the stratosphere, and some products of the reactions can modulate cloud microphysics.

On the matter of the role of condensation nuclei, a few general circulation models do have some crude representation of nucleation microphysics in their convection or cloud schemes, but it certainly isn't the key factor in the weak increase of precipitation with temperature, which is seen in all GCM's including those with very basic representations of convection.

He based his main skeptical ideas on the SOI index — which is ironically causally about CO2 coming out of solution in the Pacific, to one side or the other, and impacting surface conductivities associated with the capacitive couplings I am writing about that change cloud microphysics.

For orographic cumulus clouds, the G - 1 measurements will characterize in - cloud dynamics, microphysics, and aerosols, as well as the environmental variability around the clouds focusing on conditions upstream and downstream of clouds at multiple altitudes in the vicinity of the AMF1 site.

The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multiscale models can be improved.

Likewise, the added complexity, dimension, of electrical field impacts on cloud microphysics is unappreciated.

For those of you who know what Coulumb's law is — this may strike you as not so hard to understand, but for those who don't know what a static field is, well, it's going to be hard to understand, but that QBO was during this past month at a record negative reading, and that, IMHO, is indicative of very specific conditions where capactive couplings could and did occur to impact cloud microphysics properties.

The presence of soluble material (which may be of anthropogenic origin) on the desert dust particles converts them into large and effective CCN which may affect the cloud microphysics.

«Solar Wind Modulation of the Global Electric Circuit and Apparent Effects on Cloud Microphysics, Latent Heat Release, and Tropospheric Dynamics.»

«Influence of Solar Wind on the Global Electric Circuit, and Inferred Effects on Cloud Microphysics, Temperature, and Dynamics in the Troposphere.»

General theory of cloud dynamics; parameterization of microphysics and radiation; models of fog, stratocumuli, cumulonimbi, and orographic clouds

The indian summer monsoon rainfall: Interplay of coupled dynamics, radiation and cloud microphysics

The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag, convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase clouds ● Shallow and deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ● Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer clouds, CFMIP, cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol - cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies on aerosol - cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role of convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development

«Derivation of physical and optical properties of mid-latitude cirrus ice crystals for a size - resolved cloud microphysics model.»

The problem with clouds in climate models are of two different types: the first is a microphysics / chemistry one, regarding the physics and chemistry of how a population of cloud particles interacts with aerosol particles and evolves with time.

Before long we should see results from the CERN CLOUD experiment that may greatly improve our understanding of atmospheric microphysics.

I have only a superficial knowledge of cloud microphysics (condensation nuclei and such) so have not much to say to this issue.

Of itself, this is an interesting and plausible result, and if it stands up to more detailed scrutiny it may prove an important contribution to aerosol microphysics.

Interactive microphysics - chemistry - climate models (Rozanov et al., 2002, 2004; Shindell et al., 2003b; Timmreck et al., 2003; Dameris et al., 2005) indicate that aerosol - induced stratospheric heating affects the dispersion of the volcanic aerosol cloud, thus affecting the spatial RF.

However the models» simplified treatment of aerosol microphysics introduces biases; further, they usually overestimate the mixing at the tropopause level and intensity of meridional transport in the stratosphere (Douglass et al., 2003; Schoeberl et al., 2003).

«The impact of various WRF single - moment microphysics parameterizations on squall line precipitation events.»

Differences between these two Seff estimates can reveal interesting aspects of cloud microphysics and the cloud processes that cause bimodality.

The three models are the result of varying a single parameter that controls the amount of cloud water required for the onset of coalescence in the models microphysics scheme, which in turn controls the water content of clouds.

Given current uncertainties in representing convective precipitation microphysics and the current inability to find a clear obser - vational constraint that favors one version of the authors» model over the others, the implications of this ability to engineer climate sensitivity need to be considered when estimating the uncertainty in climate projections.»

«We've identified over a dozen such cases, and we are looking into the details of cloud dynamics and microphysics,» she says.

And noting «zonal mean - winds constitute an important element of global atmospheric circulation,» they go on to suggest,» if the solar cycle can influence zonal mean - winds, then it may affect other features of global climate as well, including oscillations such as the NAO and MJO, of which zonal winds are an ingredient» Thus, «the cause of this forcing» as they describe it, «likely involves some combination of solar wind, galactic cosmic rays, ionosphere - Earth currents and cloud microphysics.»

From a quick read of the post I gathered that the paper starts from sound microphysics and passes to what looks to me like unsound macrophysics.

Furthermore, a model that could realistically simulate the impact of increasing atmospheric particle concentration on climate must eventually include the simultaneous coupled effects of all the important atmospheric processes, such as fluid motions and cloud microphysics, in addition to the radiative transfer effects.»

«Assessment of marine boundary layer cloud simulations in the CAM with CLUBB and updated microphysics scheme based on ARM observations from the Azores.»

Using liquid and ice microphysics models reduces the biases in cloud optical thicknesses to ≲ 10 %, except in cases of mistaken phase identification; most of the remaining bias is caused by differences between actual cloud particle sizes and the values assumed in the analysis.

The aircraft also made in situ measurements of cloud microphysics and ice nuclei, as well as meteorological state parameters and radiative fluxes, which were important study inputs.