A51O:
Role of Cloud Physics in Understanding Links between Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation I

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Session ID#: 16395

Session Description:
The interplay among aerosols, clouds, radiation, and precipitation still poses a large source of uncertainty on our understanding of the climate system. Much of this uncertainty stems from insufficient knowledge of the cloud microphysical processes that connect these atmospheric elements. More recent developments in observational and modeling tools provide an improved capability to study the linkages among aerosols, clouds and precipitation at the cloud microphysics process scale. This session focuses on isolating and understanding the primary cloud physics processes, and their interplay, that drive changes in cloud characteristics. We invite presentations involving observational, laboratory and modeling studies of cloud microphysical processes and how these relate to aerosols, cloud microphysical and radiative properties, and/or precipitation.
Primary Convener:  Stephen Millican Saleeby, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners:  Greg M McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Bethan White, Monash University, Clayton, Australia and Mary C Barth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Stephen Millican Saleeby, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Mary C Barth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stephen Millican Saleeby, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Index Terms:

3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Aerosol and cloud microphysics in cloud systems (Invited) (119207)
Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States and Franziska Glassmeier, National Research Council, Washington, DC, United States
A CloudSat Perspective on the Cloud Climatology and Its Association with Aerosol Perturbations in the Vertical over Eastern China (146113)
Tianmeng Chen, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Jianping Guo, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Chuanfeng Zhao, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
Spatial and temporal distributions of ice nucleating particles during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (ACAPEX) (180505)
Ezra Levin1, Paul J DeMott1, Kaitlyn J Suski2, Yvonne Boose3, Thomas Christopher James Hill4, Christina S. McCluskey5, Gregory P Schill5, David Duncan5, Hashim Al-Mashat6, Kimberly A Prather7, Arthur J Sedlacek III8, Jason M Tomlinson2, Fan Mei, PhD2, John M Hubbe2, Mikhail S Pekour2, L. Ruby Leung2 and Sonia M Kreidenweis5, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States, (8)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Cloud Droplet Size Distribution Width and Number Concentration Relationships in Warm-Phase Clouds (185376)
Adele L Igel, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
Ultra-clean Layers (UCLs) and Low Albedo Clouds (“gray clouds”) in the Marine Boundary Layer - CSET aircraft data, 2-D bin spectral cloud parcel model, large eddy simulation and satellite observations from CALIPSO, MODIS and COSMIC (141680)
Kuan-Ting O, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Robert Wood, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Christopher Stephen Bretherton, Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, United States, Ryan M Eastman, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences Department, Seattle, WA, United States and Hsiu-Hui Tseng, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Using Large-Eddy Simulation to Explore Microphysical Precursor Conditions for Precipitation Initiation in Marine Stratocumulus (187991)
Hannah Chandler1, David B Mechem1, Ann M Fridlind2 and Andrew S Ackerman3, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
Strengthening of Arctic warming by aerosol-cloud interaction (141349)
Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Timothy J Garrett, University of Utah, Atmospheric Science, Salt Lake City, United States
The Transport of Dust by Tropical Cyclones (196782)
Susan C van den Heever1, Stephen Herbener2, Stephen Millican Saleeby1, Cynthia H Twohy3, Kathryn Sauter4, Tristan S L'Ecuyer5 and Annica Ekman6, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)NorthWest Research Associates Redmond, Redmond, WA, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (6)Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden

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