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- Title
Parameterising cloud base updraft velocity of marine stratocumuli.
- Authors
Ahola, Jaakko; Raatikainen, Tomi; Ege Alper, Muzaffer; Keskinen, Jukka-Pekka; Kokkola, Harri; Kukkurainen, Antti; Lipponen, Antti; Jia Liu; Nordling, Kalle; Partanen, Antti-Ilari; Romakkaniemi, Sami; Räisänen, Petri; Tonttila, Juha; Korhonen, Hannele
- Abstract
The number of cloud droplets formed at the cloud base depends both on the properties of aerosol particles and the updraft velocity of an air parcel at the cloud base. As the spatial scale of updrafts is too small to be resolved in global atmospheric models, the updraft velocity is commonly parameterised based on the available turbulent kinetic energy. Here we present alternative methods through parameterising updraft velocity based on high-resolution large eddy simulation (LES) runs in the 5 case of marine stratocumulus clouds. First we use our simulations to assess the accuracy of a simple linear parametrisation where the updraft velocity depends only on cloud top radiative cooling. In addition, we present two different machine learning methods (Gaussian process emulation and random forest) that account for different boundary layer conditions and cloud properties. We conclude that both machine learning parameterisations reproduce the LES-based updraft velocities at about the same accuracy, while the simple approach employing radiative cooling only produce on average lower coefficient 10 of determination and higher root mean square error values. Finally, we apply these machine learning methods to find the key parameters affecting cloud base updraft velocities.
- Subjects
STRATOCUMULUS clouds; VERTICAL drafts (Meteorology); STANDARD deviations; ATMOSPHERIC models; VELOCITY; CLOUD droplets
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acp-2021-757