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Title: Evolution of Precipitation Particle Size Distributions within MC3E Systems and its Impact on Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions: Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1374165· OSTI ID:1374165
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  1. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)

This is a multi-institutional, collaborative project using observations and modeling to study the evolution (e.g. formation and growth) of hydrometeors in continental convective clouds. Our contribution was in data analysis for the generation of high-value cloud and precipitation products and derive cloud statistics for model validation. There are two areas in data analysis that we contributed: i) the development of novel, state-of-the-art dual-wavelength radar algorithms for the retrieval of cloud microphysical properties and ii) the evaluation of large domain, high-resolution models using comprehensive multi-sensor observations. Our research group developed statistical summaries from numerous sensors and developed retrievals of vertical air motion in deep convection.

Research Organization:
McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Leicester
DOE Contract Number:
SC0008642
OSTI ID:
1374165
Report Number(s):
DOE-MCGILL-08642
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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