Constraining precipitation initiation in marine stratocumulus using aircraft observations and LES with high spectral resolution bin microphysics

Mikael Witte1, Patrick Y Chuang1, Dione Rossiter2, Orlando Ayala3 and Lian-Ping Wang4, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Gloucester, VA, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States