A13P:
Measurements, Modeling, and Feedback of Cloud-Precipitation Microphysics I

Session ID#: 2284

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Toshihisa Matsui, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Earth Systems Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Dong Liang Wu, PhD, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Toshihisa Matsui, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Earth Systems Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Dong Liang Wu, PhD, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A13P-01
The Information Available in A-Train Data Regarding Precipitation Processes in Warm Cumulus (Invited) (5231)
Gerald G Mace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States and Steven Cooper, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A13P-02
Evaluation of Ice cloud retrievals using CloudSat/CALIPSO/MODIS/AIRS and EarthCARE (22869)
Hajime Okamoto1, Kaori Sato1,2, Yuichiro Hagihara1,3, Kenta Tanaka1, Hiroshi Ishimoto4, Toshiyuki Makino1, Tomoaki Nishizawa5 and Nobuo Sugimoto5, (1)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan, (3)RIAM Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kasuga, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (5)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
A13P-03
The Separation of Simple and Complex Ice Particles Based on Aircraft Observations (7379)
Carl G Schmitt, Alaska Climate Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Connolly, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
A13P-04
Use of S-Band Profiling Radar and in Situ Size Distribution Measurements to Probabilistically Constrain Ice Sticking Efficiencies (10686)
Marcus van Lier Walqui1,2, Ann M Fridlind3, Andrew S Ackerman4, Christopher R Williams5, Jingyu Wang6, Xiquan Dong7, Wei Wu8, Greg M McFarquhar9, Alice Grandin10, Fabien Dezitter10, J Walter Strapp11 and Alexei Korolev12, (1)Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, United States, (2)NASA GISS, New York, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (7)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (9)Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (10)Airbus, Toulouse, France, (11)Met Analytics Inc., Aurora, ON, Canada, (12)Environment Canada Toronto, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Section, Toronto, ON, Canada
A13P-05
Observed Influence of Riming, Temperature, and Turbulence on the Fallspeed of Solid Precipitation (13508)
Sandra E Yuter, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States and Timothy J Garrett, University of Utah, Atmospheric Science, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A13P-07
Assessing global microphysics of warm cloud and light precipitation from active sensors (22674)
Kaori Sato1, Hajime Okamoto1 and Hiroshi Ishimoto2, (1)Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
A13P-08
On the Microphysics Equilibrium of Tropical Convection Derived From Long-Term TRMM Radiance-Based Statistics (14349)
Toshihisa Matsui and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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