Session 13B Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics across Scales

Thursday, 1 February 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Johnson AB (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Host: First Symposium on Cloud Physics
Submitters:
Andrew Gettelman, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA; Hugh Morrison, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; Kaitlyn Loftus and Marcus van Lier-Walqui
Cochairs:
Andrew Gettelman, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA; Hugh Morrison, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; Kaitlyn Loftus and Marcus van Lier-Walqui

Cloud microphysics is critical for weather and climate prediction, being at the center of precipitation formation and cloud-radiative interactions. Representing cloud microphysics in models requires statistical parameterizations of hydrometeor populations and the processes by which they evolve and interact. We invite presentations on all aspects of cloud microphysics parameterizations across different scales of modeling, with a focus on key issues for climate as clouds change in response to climate change. Topics may include the development of new parameterization methods and evaluation using observations in key regimes that are important for weather and climate. We invite topics on new data driven methods such as machine learning and Bayesian methods for parameterization development, emulation and evaluation.

Papers:
8:30 AM
13B.1
An Analysis of Uncertainties in Warm Rain Parameterizations in Climate Models Based on in Situ Measurements
Zhibo Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and D. Mechem, J. C. Chiu, and J. A. Covert

8:45 AM
13B.2
Early Performance of a Combined Cloud-Rain Liquid Category for Simulating Warm Rain Production
Adele Igel, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and A. Z. Hu, H. Morrison, and M. van Lier-Walqui

9:00 AM
13B.3
Sensitivity of Spaceborne Radar and Microwave Radiometer Observations to Cloud Microphysical Properties in Deep Convection
Derek J. Posselt, PhD, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. L. Storer, R. Schulte, R. Chase, P. J. Marinescu, and S. C. van den Heever

9:15 AM
13B.4
The Impacts of Liquid Fraction and Multiple Free Ice-Phase Categories on the Simulation of Hail
Jason A. Milbrandt, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and H. Morrison and M. Cholette

9:30 AM
13B.5
Terminal Velocity Is Not Enough: A New Parametrization for the Settling of Hydrometeors in Turbulent Air
Timothy J. Garrett, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. K. Singh, E. R. Pardyjak, and S. Donovan

9:45 AM
13B.6
Learning Constraints on Depositional Ice Growth Models from Cloud Chamber Experiments with Physics Informed Neural Networks
Kara D. Lamb, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; Earth and Environmental Engineering Department, Columbia Univ., New York City, CA; and J. M. Mikhaeil and J. Y. Harrington

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