Session 8 – Mid-latitude cloud systems

Oral session

S8.1 Microphysical and thermodynamic structure of two nocturnal elevated mesoscale convective systems sampled during the 2015 PECAN project
Daniel M. Stechman*1, Greg M. McFarquhar1, Robert M. Rauber1, Brian F. Jewett1, Robert A. Black5, David P. Jorgensen4, Michael M. Bell2, Terry J. Schuur3,6 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA, 3Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, USA, 4National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA, 5National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Hurricane Research Division,
USA, 6University of Oklahoma, USA (video; position 0:00)
S8.2 Investigating the parameterization of graupel density on simulated squall line characteristics
Sarah Tessendorf*1, Steven Naegele2, Greg Thompson1, Kyoko Ikeda1, Trude Eidhammer1
1NCAR/RAL, USA, 2Penn State University, USA (video; position 15:49)
S8.3 Impacts of mesoscale circulation amplification on simulated squall line precipitation biases
Adam Varble*1, Hugh Morrison2, Edward Zipser1
1University of Utah, USA, 2NCAR, USA (video; position 0:00)
S8.4 Impacts of modeling ice particle shape evolution on orographic precipitation and squall-line structure
Anders Jensen*1, Jerry Harrington2, Hugh Morrison3
1NSF/NCAR, USA, 2The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 3NCAR, USA (video; position 16:00)
S8.5 The robustness of cloud model predictions over different aerosol environments. Jill S Johnson*, Zhiqiang Cui, Lindsay Lee, Ken Carslaw
University of Leeds, UK (video; position 0:00)
S8.6 Rapid Aggregation of Ice Particles explored using multiple-radar Doppler spectra Andrew Barrett*, Chris Westbrook, John Nicol, Thorwald Stein
University of Reading, UK (video; position 15:00)
S8.7 Increased aerosol concentrations above the PBL impact on MCS stratiform precipitation
Michal Clavner, William Cotton*
Colorado State University, USA
S8.8 KiD-A intercomparison: How sensitive are microphysics schemes to the representation of aerosol?
Adrian Hill*1, Zachary Lebo2
1Met Office, UK, 2University of Wyoming, USA (video; position 0:00)
S8.9 Validation of the 2-moment microphysical scheme LIMA based on HyMeX microphysical observations
Marie TAUFOUR*1, Benoît VIE1, Gaëlle DELAUTIER1, Jean-Pierre PINTY2
1CNRM-GAME, France, 2Laboratoire d’Aérologie, France (video; position 17:24)
S8.10 Aircraft observations and convection permitting model simulations of cold-air outbreak events
Steven J. Abel*1, Ian Boutle1, Keith N. Bower2, Phillip R. A. Brown1, Tom Choularton2, Stuart Fox1, Gary Lloyd2, Kirk Waite1
1Met Office, UK, 2University of Manchester, UK (video; position 28:47)
S8.11 Airborne 4-Frequency Radar Measurements of Precipitation and Clouds During IPHEx and RADEX
Gerald Heymsfield*1, Lin Tian2,1, Mircea Grecu2,1, Matthew McLinden1, Lihua Li1, Vijay Venkatesh3
1Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, 2GESTAR/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, 3Science Systems and Applications, USA (video; position 0:00)
S8.12 Constraining precipitation susceptibilities of warm, ice- and mixed-phase clouds with microphysical equations
Franziska Glassmeier*, Ulrike Lohmann
ETH Zurich, Switzerland (video; positon 15:00)
S8.13 Improving fog diagnosis in the Met Office’s operational forecast model Bernard Claxton
Met Office, UK (video; position 30:00)
S8.14 Implementation of a triple-moment modal parameterization for simulating ice crystal growth habit effects on cloud and precipitation during DIAMET Jen-Ping Chen*1, Tzu-Chin Tsai1, Christopher Dearden2
1National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2University of Manchester, UK

Poster session:

P8.1 The simulation and mechanism analysis of ‘721’ torrential rain in Beijing Fan Ping
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
P8.2 721-Beijing rainstorm process analysis caused by the Hetao cyclone development eastward shift xuefeng meng
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Meteorological Observatory, China
P8.3 Characteristics of Cloud Chart and Environment Field on a Heavy Rain in Shanxi Province in July 2011 Zhao Guixiang*1, Zhao Jianfeng1, YANG dong1, PENG Aiguo2, ZHANG Chaoming3
1Shanxi Meteorological Office, China, 2Pianguan Weather Station, China, 3Shanxi Atmospheric sounding technology support center, China
P8.4 Circulation induced by low level radiative cooling
Ann Kristin Naumann*, Bjorn Stevens, Cathy Hohenegger Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
P8.5 A Modeling Study of Parameterization Schemes for Depositional Growth of Ice Crystal: Four Rainfall Cases over Tropics and Midlatitudes
Xiaofan Li
Zhejiang University, China
P8.6 Effects of Large-Scale Forcing on Cloud Microphysical and Rainfall Responses to Radiation during the Landfall of Severe Tropical Storm Bilis (2006)
Guoqing Zhai*, Xiaofan Xiaofan
Zhejiang University, China
P8.7 Characteristics of wintertime snowfall for the last decade in the Yeongdong region of Korea
Byung-Gon Kim*1, Seung-Hee Eun1, Dea-Kyeong Seong1, A-Reum Ko2, Byeong-Cheol Choi2, Ki-Ho Chang2, Won- Seok Seo3
1Gangneung-Wonju National University, Republic of Korea, 2National Institute of Meteorological Study, Republic of Korea, 3Korean Polar Research Institute, Republic of Korea
P8.8 Radar-derived structural characteristics and precipitation production of convection observed during the COnvective Precipitation Experiment (COPE)
David Plummer*1, David Leon1, Jeffrey French1, Robert Jackson1, Ryan Neely2,3, Alan Blyth2,3, Lindsay Bennett2,3, David Dufton2
1University of Wyoming, USA, 2University of Leeds, UK, 3National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK
P8.9 Modeling of daytime convective development over land with COSMO-EULAG
Bogdan Rosa*1, Wojciech Grabowski2, Michal Ziemianski1, Damian Wójcik1
1Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute, Poland, 2NCAR, USA
P8.10 Evaluation of bulk microphysics schemes in simulated snow clouds in the Hokuriku district, Japan Tetsuya Kawano*1, Takumi Honda2, Kenji Suzuki3, Soichiro Sugimoto4, Tsutomu Takahashi5
1Kyushu University, Japan, 2RIKEN, Japan, 3Yamaguchi University, Japan, 4Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan, 5Honolulu, USA
P8.11 The interaction between ice nuclei and deep convection in Southeast China Xin Deng*, Huiwen Xue
Peking University, China
P8.12 Improved predictions of atmospheric icing in Norway
Bjørg Jenny Engdahl*1,2, Jón Egill Kristjánsson2, Gregory Thompson3, Bjørn Egil Nygaard4, Lisa Bengtsson5, Harold McInnes1
1Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway, 2University of Oslo, Norway, 3National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, 4Kjeller Vindteknikk, Norway, 5Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden
P8.13 On the effect of aerosols on orographic cloud and precipitation Yan Yin*, Hui Xiao
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
P8.14 Spatio-temporal characterization of warm convective cloud fields over Central Europe Sebastian Bley*, Hartwig Deneke, Fabian Senf
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany
P8.15 Comparing the spatio-temporal variability of warm cumulus clouds from ICON-LES, COSMO-DE modelling and Meteosat observations
Sebastian Bley*1, Hartwig Deneke1, Fabian Senf1, Cintia Carbajal Henken2, Odran Sourdeval3
1Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany, 2FU Berlin, Institute for Space Sciences, Germany, 3University of Leipzig, Germany
P8.16 Aerosol-Cloud interactions in orographic wave clouds (ICE-L) Annette Miltenberger*1, Paul Field1,2, Adrian Hill2, Ben Shipway2 1University of Leeds, UK, 2MetOffice, UK
P8.17 The effects of atmospheric aerosol on the warm rain process: two case studies during the COnvective Precipitation Experiment (COPE) and numerical simulations
Zixia Liu*1, Thomas W. Choularton1, Jonathan Crosier1,4, Jonathan W. Taylor1, Keith N. Bower1, Paul J. Connolly1, Martin Gallagher1, Alan M. Blyth2, Philip R. A. Brown3
1Center for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, 2National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, UK, 3Met Office, UK, 4National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK
P8.18 Evaluating the role of precipitation-sized ice particles in the simulations of deep convection with a multi- moment four-category ice microphysics scheme
Tzu-Chin Tsai*1, Jen-Ping Chen1, Xiquan Dong2, Jingjing Tian2, Jingyu Wang2
1National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA
P8.19 Monitoring fog at Sofia Airport using GNSS tropospheric products and Sofia Stability Index
Anastasiya Stoycheva*1, Ilian Manafov2, Keranka Vassileva3, Guergana Guerova4
1National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria, 2Bulatsa, Bulgaria, 3National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, BAS, Bulgaria, 4Sofia University, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Bulgaria
P8.20 Cloud Characteristics over Beijing Revealed with IAP’s Ka Band Doppler Radar Daren LU*, Hui WANG, Jinli LIU
Institute of Atmospheric Physics,CAS, China
P8.21 Evaluation of cloud properties in Environment Canada’s high-resolution NWP simulations with satellite-borne radar, lidar, and aircraft in-situ observations
Zhipeng Qu*1, Alexei Korolev1, Howard Barker1, Mengistu Wolde2, Cuong Nguyen2, Alain Protat3, Julien Delanoë4, Alfons Schwarzenboeck5, Jason Milbrandt6, Stephane Belair6, Jason Cole6
1Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada, 2National Research Council Canada, Canada, 3Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, 4Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, France, 5Université Blaise Pascal, France, 6Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
P8.22 Meteosat-based Characterization of the Initiation and Growth of Severe Convective Storms over Central Europe
Fabian Senf, Sebastian Bley, Daniel Merk*, Hartwig Deneke
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany
P8.23 Dominant Cloud Microphysical Processes during the 2013 Southwest China Summer Floods
Yongjie Huang*1,2, Xiaopeng Cui1
1Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
P8.24 Cloud microphysics simulation using multi-dimensional bin-microphysics model
Akihiro Hashimoto*1, Rhohei Misumi2, Masataka Murakami1
1Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, 2National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan
P8.25 Numerical modelling of stable radiation fog
Daniel Smith*1, Ian Renfrew1, Stephen Dorling1, Jeremy Price2 1University of East Anglia, UK, 2UK Met Office Research Unit, UK