Session 13B Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds I

Thursday, 1 February 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
329 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions
Cochairs:
Youtong Zheng Prof, California Institute of Technology, Hydrology and Atmosphere Sciences, Tucson, AZ; Emily Katherine de Jong and Peng Wu

Many shallow cloud systems are sensitive to changes in aerosol properties, which act as cloud condensation nuclei, modulate cloud microphysical properties, and can influence precipitation formation and cloud-scale dynamics. Ultimately, these controls may alter low-cloud radiative properties and climate. Aerosol particles, in turn, are impacted by shallow-cloud processes. Together, these interactions result in an aerosol–cloud system whose coupling strength is highly variable and is poorly understood in terms of basic process understanding. Correctly representing this coupling in large-scale models has proven challenging. In this session we invite presentations on all topics related to aerosol–cloud interactions in shallow warm-phase clouds, including those addressing basic physical aerosol-cloud processes, the quantification of aerosol indirect effects, cloud and precipitation effects on aerosols, and the coupling between microphysical processes and boundary layer turbulence or mesoscale cloud dynamics. Contributions from recent field campaigns or which explore novel parameterizations and computational techniques are encouraged.

Papers:
8:30 AM
13B.1
Exploring Low Cloud and Aerosol Interactions in Geostationary Satellite Observations, LES and CESM: Causal Relationships and Timescales
Xiaoli Zhou, NOAA CSL/ CIRES, Boulder; NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and G. Feingold, D. Painemal, and A. Gettelman

9:30 AM
13B.5
A Large Eddy Simulation Library of Liquid Clouds to Enable Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Interaction Studies
Colleen M. Kaul, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. Pressel, P. L. Ma, M. Huang, S. Tang, M. Ovchinnikov, X. Zheng, X. Dong, and J. Fast

9:45 AM
13B.6
Warm Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Complex Terrain
Lihui Ji, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, CHAMPAIGN, IL; and A. P. Barros

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