Characterizing Subsiding Shells in Shallow Cumulus Using Doppler Lidar and Large-Eddy Simulation
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS(2020)
Abstract
The existence of subsiding shells on the periphery of shallow cumulus clouds has major implications concerning the parameterization of shallow convection, with the mass exchange between the shell and cloudy air representing a significant deviation from the commonly used bulk-plume parameterization. We examine the structure and frequency of subsiding shells in shallow cumulus convection using Doppler lidars at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains facility in the central United States and at the Julich ObservatorY for Cloud Evolution in western Germany. Doppler lidar indicates that the vertical subsiding shell extent is asymmetric, while shell width is typically similar to 100 m. Large-eddy simulation can reasonably simulate the observed shell structure using a grid spacing of 10 m and suggests that much of the observed asymmetry is not a result of transient cloud evolution.
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Doppler lidar</AUTHOR_KEYWORD>,large-eddy simulation</AUTHOR_KEYWORD>,shallow cumulus</AUTHOR_KEYWORD>,subsiding shells</AUTHOR_KEYWORD>
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