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Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

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In this chapter, cloud-radiative processes are examined through the comparison between the sensitivity experiments with varied and fixed cloud single-scattering albedo and asymmetric factor. Cloud microphysical processes are investigated through the comparison between the sensitivity experiments with and without schemes of depositional growth of snow from cloud ice. The effects of ice clouds on rainfall are also analyzed based on the sensitivity experiment study. Heat and water vapor budgets are analyzed to study condensation, associated release of latent heat and large-scale forcing, and their relationship. The lag correlation analysis is applied to the budgets of available potential and kinetic energy to identify dominant physical processes that are responsible for the phase difference between unstable energy and rainfall.

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  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Li, X., Gao, S. (2016). Cloud-Radiative and Microphysical Processes. In: Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26360-1_8

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