Summary: Z .Atmospheric Research 47­48 1998 41­58
Linear eddy modeling of droplet spectral evolution
during entrainment and mixing in cumulus clouds
Chwen-Wei Su a
, Steven K. Krueger b,)
, Patrick A. McMurtry a
,
Philip H. Austin c
a
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UniÕersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
b
Department of Meteorology, UniÕersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
c
Atmospheric Sciences Programme, UniÕersity of British Columbia, VancouÕer, BC, Canada V6T1Z2
Accepted 7 May 1997
Abstract
Z . wThe explicit mixing parcel model EMPM of Krueger et al. Krueger, S.K., Su, C.-W.,
McMurtry, P.A., 1997. Modeling entrainment and fine-scale mixing in cumulus clouds. J. Atmos.
xSci. 54, 2697­2712. is extended to explicitly account for individual droplet growth. The model
provides a 1D representation of physical properties within a cloud parcel and incorporates the

Source: Austin, Philip H. - Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia

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