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- Title
Precipitation responses to radiative effects of ice clouds: A cloud-resolving modeling study of a pre-summer torrential precipitation event.
- Authors
Shen, Xinyong; Jiang, Xiaocen; Huang, Wenyan; Guo, Chunyan
- Abstract
The precipitation responses to the radiative effects of ice clouds are investigated through analysis of five-day and horizontally averaged data from 2D cumulus ensemble model experiments of a pre-summer torrential precipitation event. The exclusion of the radiative effects of ice clouds lowered the precipitation rate through a substantial reduction in the decrease of hydrometeors when the radiative effects of water clouds were switched on, whereas it increased the precipitation rate through hydrometeor change from an increase to a decrease when the radiative effects of ice clouds were turned off. The weakened hydrometeor decrease was associated with the enhanced longwave radiative cooling mainly through the decreases in the melting of non-precipitating ice to non-precipitating water. The hydrometeor change from an increase to a decrease corresponded to the strengthened longwave radiative cooling in the upper troposphere through the weakened collection of non-precipitating water by precipitation water.
- Subjects
METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; RADIATION; ICE clouds; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL cycles; TROPOSPHERE
- Publication
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 10, p1137
- ISSN
0256-1530
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00376-016-5218-8