Identifying sensitivities for cirrus modelling using a two-moment two-mode bulk microphysics scheme

被引:15
作者
Koehler, Carmen G. [1 ,3 ]
Seifert, Axel [2 ]
机构
[1] Deutsch Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
[2] Deutsch Wetterdienst, Hans Ertel Ctr Weather Res, Hamburg, Germany
[3] Deutsch Zentrum Luft & Raumfahrt, Inst Phys Atmosphare, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
来源
TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY | 2015年 / 67卷
关键词
cloud microphysics; ice nucleation; cirrus clouds; ice supersaturation; HETEROGENEOUS ICE NUCLEATION; CLOUD FORMATION; PART I; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERIZATION; EXPLICIT MICROPHYSICS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; OROGRAPHIC CIRRUS; WATER-VAPOR; AEROSOL; SUPERSATURATION;
D O I
10.3402/tellusb.v67.24494
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
Cirrus cloud genesis is an inherently multiscale and non-linear problem. The synoptic scale provides the environment, the mesoscale determines the forcing and the actual nucleation events occur on a microscopic scale. This makes the parameterisation in numerical weather prediction models a challenging task. In order to improve the prediction of cirrus clouds and ice supersaturation formation in the German Weather Service (DWD) model chain, the controlling physical processes are investigated and parameterised in a new cloud ice microphysics scheme. The new scheme is an extended version of the ice-microphysical scheme operational in the numerical weather prediction models of DWD. The developed two-moment two-mode cloud ice scheme includes state-of-the-art parameterisations for the two main processes for ice formation, namely homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation. Homogeneous freezing of supercooled liquid aerosols is triggered in regions with high atmospheric ice supersaturations (145-160%) and high cooling rates. Atmospheric small-scale fluctuations are accounted for by use of the turbulent kinetic energy. Heterogeneous nucleation depends mostly on the existence of ice nuclei in the atmosphere and occurs primarily at lower ice supersaturations. Thus, heterogeneously nucleated ice crystals deplete ice supersaturation via depositional growth and can therefore inhibit subsequent homogeneous freezing. The new cloud ice scheme accounts for pre-existing ice crystals, contains a prognostic budget variable for activated ice nuclei and includes cloud ice sedimentation. Furthermore, a consistent treatment of the depositional growth of the two-ice particle modes and the larger snowflakes is applied by using a relaxation time scale method which ensures a physical representation for depleting ice supersaturation. The new cloud ice scheme is used to identify the relative roles of heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation in the formation of cirrus clouds and ice supersaturation. A parcel model is used in order to investigate the differences between the operational and new cloud ice scheme. The time scales for the homogeneous nucleation event and for the depositional growth are emphasised. The importance of the new ice nucleation scheme is demonstrated by conducting idealised simulations of orographic cirrus in the COSMO (Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling) model environment.
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