Initiation of rain by turbulence-induced condensational growth of cloud droplets

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Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3206806t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 6, CiteID L06806

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Processes: Clouds And Aerosols, Atmospheric Processes: Precipitation (1854), Atmospheric Processes: Theoretical Modeling, Atmospheric Processes: Turbulence (4490)

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Rain droplet formation due to condensational growth and small-scale turbulent fluctuations is investigated. We report here the results of Monte Carlo type simulations of the droplet activation on cloud condensation nuclei and subsequent condensational growth in a turbulent cloud medium. According to modeling results relatively small fluctuations in temperature and water vapor concentration play essential role in droplet size distribution broadening and producing big cloud droplets, responsible for onset of fast coalescence growth and initiation of precipitation.

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