JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[EE] Poster

A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences) » A-AS Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology & Atmospheric Environment

[A-AS02] [EE] Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations for Cloud-Related Processes in Climate and Weather Studies

Mon. May 22, 2017 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7)

convener:Toshi Matsui(NASA GSFC & ESSIC UMD), Masaki Satoh(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo), Wei-Kuo Tao(Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory)

[AAS02-P04] Comparison between bulk and bin cloud microphysical schemes for warm rain

*Naomi Kuba1, Kentaroh Suzuki1, Woosub Roh1, Tatsuya Seiki2, Masaki Satoh1,2 (1.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo , 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

Keywords:Cloud microphysical scheme, satellite simulator, two-moment bin scheme, two-moment bulk scheme

Two-moment bin and two-moment bulk cloud microphysical schemes were compared using a two-dimensional kinematic driver model and a forward simulator of satellite measurements. The conversion process from cloud droplets to raindrops was focused. From numerical experiments, the following results were found. The bulk and bin schemes studied in this paper show the effect of cloud droplet number on precipitation sufficiently, and the difference in rainfall amount between these schemes was small in contrast to previous studies. The vertical distributions of mass of rain water and number of raindrops in these schemes are quite different. It can be caused by overestimation of falling velocity of rainwater and underestimation of self-collection process (or overestimation of collisional breakup process) of raindrops in the bulk scheme. Time evolutions and patterns of the relationships between horizontally averaged reflectivity and optical depth from cloud top were similar between these schemes. The slope factor of this relationships (changing rate of horizontally averaged reflectivity for optical depth from cloud top) near the cloud top in a later stage of cloud lifetime is smaller in bulk scheme than bin scheme. Previous studies showed that the slope factor relates to bulk collection efficiency. However, it was shown that bulk collection efficiency assumed in this bulk scheme is almost same as that estimated in the bin scheme, and that overestimated falling velocity of raindrops leads to the smaller slope factor in this bulk scheme.