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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
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, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
A13P-01
 
The Information Available in A-Train Data Regarding Precipitation Processes in Warm Cumulus
Gerald G Mace1, Derek J Posselt2 and Steve Cooper1, (1)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
1:55 PM
A13P-02
 
Evaluation of Ice cloud retrievals using CloudSat/CALIPSO/MODIS/AIRS and EarthCARE
Hajime Okamoto1, Kaori Sato1,2, Yuichiro Hagihara1,2, Kenta Tanaka1, Hiroshi Ishimoto3, Toshiyuki Makino1, Tomoaki Nishizawa4 and Nobuo Sugimoto4, (1)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)RIAM Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kasuga, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
2:10 PM
A13P-03
 
The Separation of Simple and Complex Ice Particles Based on Aircraft Observations
Carl G Schmitt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, NESL-MMM, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Connolly, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
2:25 PM
A13P-04
 
Use of S-Band Profiling Radar and in Situ Size Distribution Measurements to Probabilistically Constrain Ice Sticking Efficiencies
Marcus van Lier-Walqui1,2, Ann M Fridlind2, Andrew S Ackerman2, Christopher R Williams3, Jingyu Wang4, Xiquan Dong4, Wei Wu5, Greg M McFarquhar6, Alice Grandin7, Fabien Dezitter7, J Walter Strapp8 and Alexei Korolev9, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (6)Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (7)Airbus, Toulouse, France, (8)Met Analytics Inc., Aurora, ON, Canada, (9)Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2:40 PM
A13P-05
 
Observed Influence of Riming, Temperature, and Turbulence on the Fallspeed of Solid Precipitation
Sandra E Yuter, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States and Timothy J Garrett, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
2:55 PM
A13P-06
 
High Resolution Radar Detection of Individual Raindrops in Natural Cloud Systems
Jerome Schmidt, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States, Piotr J Flatau, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Paul R Harasti, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States and Robert D Yates, Radar Consultant, Huntingto Beach, CA, Afghanistan
3:10 PM
A13P-07
 
Assessing global microphysics of warm cloud and light precipitation from active sensors
Kaori Sato1, Hajime Okamoto1 and Hiroshi Ishimoto2, (1)RIAM Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kasuga, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
3:25 PM
A13P-08
 
On the Microphysics Equilibrium of Tropical Convection Derived From Long-Term TRMM Radiance-Based Statistics
Toshihisa Matsui and Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
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