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Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions
Wojciech W. Grabowski
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Fan, J., Y. Wang, D. Rosenfeld, and X. Liu, 2016: Review of aerosol–cloud interactions: Mechanisms, significance, and challenges. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4221–4252.
Tao, W.-K., J.-P. Chen, Z. Li, C. Wang, and C. Zhang, 2012: Impact of aerosols on convective clouds and precipitation. Rev. Geophys., 50, RG2001, doi:10.1029/2011RG000369.
These papers include several hundred references…
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What determines the concentration of cloud droplets?
To answer this, one needs to understand formation of cloud droplets, that is, the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) .
This typically happens near the cloud base, when the rising air parcel approaches saturation.
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Surface tension (Kelvin) effect
Solute (Raoult) effect
Saturated water vapor pressure over an aqueous solution droplet with radius r
Saturated water vapor pressure over plain water surface
Saturation ratio:
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ms=10-17 g
ms=10-16 g
ms=10-15 g
0.1 1. 10..01
Radius (micrometers)
Satu
ratio
n ra
tio S
-1%
1%
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environmental conditions
stable
unstable
haze particles activated droplets
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activation radius
activation saturation ratio (or supersaturation)
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CCN, soluble salt particles, have different sizes.
Large CCN are nucleated first, activation of smaller ones follows as the supersaturation builds up.
Once sufficient number of CCN is activated, supersaturation levels off, and activation is completed.
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Twomey CCN activation:
N - total concentration of activated droplets
S – supersaturation (S = qv/qvs -1)
N = a Sb
a, b – parameters characterizing CCN
0 < b < 1 (typically, b=0.5)
a~100 cm-3 maritime/clean
a~1,000 cm-3 continental/polluted
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Computational example:
Nucleation and growth of cloud droplets in a parcel of air rising with vertical velocity of 1 m/s;
Contrasting continental/polluted and maritime/pristine aerosols
a~100 cm-3 maritime/clean
a~1,000 cm-3 continental/polluted
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N = a Sb
b = 0.5
continental
a=1000 cm-3
maritime
a=100 cm-3
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maritime
a=100 cm-3
continental
a=1000 cm-3
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report 13
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Global versus local effects…
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-100100 Wm-2
Top-of-atmosphere net (solar minus Earth longwave) radiative flux
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The Earth annual and global mean energy budget
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IPCC 2007; Synthesis Report
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Global versus local effects…
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2008, 2009, 2010 summers (JJA) convection-permitting (~3 km gridlength) 48-hour hindcasts using COSMO-DE
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!
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maritime (“clean”) continental (“polluted”)
cloudbase
cloudupdraft
Indirect aerosol effects (warm rain only)
1st Indirect effect
2nd Indirect Effect
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Ship tracks: spectacular example of indirect effects caused by ship exhausts acting as CCN(long-lasting, feedback on cloud dynamics?)
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Why indirect aerosol effect are so uncertain and difficult to quantify?
Because they are a (parameterization)2 problem for current global climate models: parameterized microphysics in parameterized clouds!
Because observations cannot distinguish with confidence the impact of aerosols from the impact on meteorological conditions: correlation versus causality
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correlation versus causality:
clean polluted
satellites observing aerosols and clouds…
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correlation versus causality:
clean polluted
satellites
If clouds correlate with aerosol, this does not imply that aerosols are solely responsible for changing clouds…
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If clouds correlate with aerosol, this does not imply that aerosols are solely responsible for changing clouds…
Clouds and aerosol can simply vary together (for instance, because of the large-scale advection patterns…).
If I drive to the office in the morning and there is more accidents at that time, am I responsible for the increase?
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Rosenfeld et al. Science, 2008“Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?”
clean
polluted
dynamics versus microphysics?
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Because of the nonlinear fluid dynamics, separating physical impacts from the effects of different flow realizations (“the butterfly effect”; Ed Lorenz) is nontrivial.
The separation is traditionally done by performing parallel simulations where each simulation applies modified model physics.
Evolution of cloud cover in 5 simulations of shallow cumulus cloud field. The only difference is in random small temperature and moisture perturbations at t=0.
Methodology:Grabowski J. Atmos. Sci. 2014
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Morrison et al. JAS 2015
squall line simulations with different microphysics schemes:
microphysics alone or microphysics plus dynamics?
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Grabowski, W. W., 2014: Extracting microphysical impacts in large-eddy simulations of shallow convection. J. Atmos. Sci. 71, 4493-4499.
Grabowski, W. W., 2015: Untangling microphysical impacts on deep convection applying a novel modeling methodology. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 2446-2464.
Grabowski, W. W., and D. Jarecka, 2015: Modeling condensation in shallow nonprecipitating convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 4661-4679.
Grabowski, W. W., and H. Morrison, 2016: Untangling microphysical impacts on deep convection applying a novel modeling methodology. Part II: Double-moment microphysics. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 3749-3770.
Grabowski W. W., and H. Morrison, 2017: Modeling condensation in deep convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2247-2267.
Novel modeling methodology: the piggybacking
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3D babyEULAG: a simple anelastic toy model targeting moist convection (shallow – LES; deep – CSRM; etc):
- no topography;- no subgrid-scale model (i.e., ILES);- stretched vertical grid;- periodic (horizontal), rigid lid (top and bottom boundaries);- single-thread
Fortran 77 code, ~3k lines, ~300 lines in the main program
To be run on a laptop or a desktop PC
My experience (Mac): 1003 grid-point LES/CSRM runs not much slower than real time…
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Rosenfeld et al. Science, 2008“Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?”
clean
polluted
dynamics versus microphysics?
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Cloud buoyancy: the potential density temperature
Θd=Θ (1 + εqv – qc – qp)ε=0.61qv – water vapor mixing ratio
qc – cloud condensate mixing ratio(small fall velocity; ~cm/s)
qp – precipitation mixing ratio(large fall velocity; ~m/s)
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Condensate off-loading: qc is converted into qp, qp falls out…
Θd=Θ (1 + εqv – qc – qp)
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…but condensateloading reduces buoyancy
latent heating increases buoyancy…
Rosenfeld et al. mechanism: freezing of liquid condensate carried through the 0 degC level:
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…but condensateloading reduces buoyancy
latent heating increases buoyancy…
Rosenfeld et al. mechanism: freezing of liquid condensate carried through the 0 degC level:
The two almost perfectly balance each other, thus off-loading is the key…
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Finite supersaturation impacts Θ, qv, and qc:
Θd=Θ (1 + εqv – qc)
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sensible
latent
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LBA sounding
(pseudo) adiabatic parcel analysis
0 degC
-40 degC
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Cloud-resolving simulations of LBA shallow to deep convection transition applying piggybacking methodology with 2-moment bulk microphysics:
- 50 x 50 x 24 km3 domain;
- 400 m horizontal gridlength;
- stretched grid in the vertical: 81 levels, ~50 m near the surface, ~300 m in the middle troposphere, ~600 m near the upper boundary;
- 4 s time step;
- run for 12 hrs, 3D fields saved every 6 min, time-averaged surface rain saved every 3 min.
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Simulations with double-moment bulk microphysics of Morrison and Grabowski (JAS 2007, 2008a,b):
Nc , qc - cloud waterNr , qr - drizzle/rain waterNi , qid , qir - ice
Important differences from single-moment bulk schemes:
1. Supersaturation is allowed.2. Ice concentration linked to droplet and
drizzle/rain concentrations.
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Simulations with double-moment bulk microphysics of Morrison and Grabowski (JAS 2007, 2008a,b):
PRI: pristine case, CCN of 100 per ccPOL: polluted case, CCN of 1,000 per cc
The same ice initiation for POL and PRI
Piggybacking: D-PRI/P-POL: PRI drives, POL piggybacksD-POL/P-PRI: POL drives, PRI piggybacks
Five-member ensemble for each
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PRI, pristine: 100 mg -1POL, polluted: 1000 mg-1
2.0
0.05 µm
Lognormal single-mode CCN distribution:
as in Morrison and Grabowski (JAS 2007, 2008a)
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D-PRI(pristine)
D-POL(polluted)
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POL drives,PRI piggybacks
PRI drives, POL piggybacks
solid lines: driving set dashed lines: piggybacking set
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solid lines: driving set dashed lines: piggybacking set
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impact on the cloud dynamics?
solid lines: driving set dashed lines: piggybacking set
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1 K ≈ 0.03 m s-2
Comparing buoyancy between driving and piggybacking sets (hour 6):
D-PRI/P-POL D-POL/P-PRI
at 9 km (-27 degC)(Rosenfeld et al. mechanism…)
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1 K ≈ 0.03 m s-2
Comparing buoyancy between driving and piggybacking sets (hour 6):
D-PRI/P-POL D-POL/P-PRI
POL has slightly less buoyancy than PRI…
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D-PRI/P-POL D-POL/P-PRI
at 3 km (9 degC)
1 K ≈ 0.03 m s-2
Comparing buoyancy between driving and piggybacking sets (hour 6):
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D-PRI/P-POL D-POL/P-PRI
POL can have significantly more buoyancy than PRI…
1 K ≈ 0.03 m s-2
Comparing buoyancy between driving and piggybacking sets (hour 6):
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1% supersaturation ≈ 0.1 K density temperature reduction
Comparing Θd with finite supersaturation with Θd at S=0, Θdb
Grabowski and Jarecka ( JAS, 2015)
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Comparing Θd with finite supersaturation with Θd at S=0, Θdb
lower troposphere
middle troposphere
upper troposphere
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Hour 6, z = 3 km (9 degC), points with w > 1 m/s, Q > 1 g/kg
activated CCN
updraft velocity
supersaturation
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Almost all CCN is activated for the strongest updrafts…
PRI supersaturationsare higher than POL…
Hour 6, z = 3 km (9 degC), points with w > 1 m/s, Q > 1 g/kg
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PRI, pristine: 100 + 500 mg -1POL, polluted: 1000 + 5000 mg-1
2.0
0.05 + 0.01 µm
Lognormal double-mode CCN distribution:
as in Morrison and Grabowski (JAS 2007, 2008a)
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Hour 6, z = 3 km (9 degC), points with w > 1 m/s, Q > 1 g/kg
Not all CCN is activated even for the strongest updrafts…
Supersaturations are smaller now, but still up to several percent…
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Smaller difference between POL and PRI for upper-tropospheric anvils…
POL minus PRI still significantly larger when POL is driving…
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Rosenfeld et al. Science, 2008“Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?”
clean
polluted
dynamics versus microphysics?
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Summary:
Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions include multitude of aspects and concern both global and local weather and climate. They are typically referred to as the “indirect aerosol effects”. Only small fraction of those aspects were highlighted in this lecture. The review papers provide more complete overview of the problem.
Observations alone cannot provide support for conceptual models of indirect aerosol effects, like the convection invigoration in polluted environments. The key issue is that correlations between modified aerosols and modified clouds seen in observations do not imply causality. Separation of aerosol impact from the impacts of meteorology (e.g., different advective tendencies of temperature and moisture that drive cloud dynamics) is virtually impossible with current measurement capabilities.
Separation of aerosol impact from meteorology is possible though modeling. One approach is to consider extended (weeks and months) NWP simulations as in Seifert et al. Another one is the piggybacking approach that allows clear separation of microphysical and dynamical impact of aerosols. The latter shows a small modification of deep convection dynamics and a significant microphysicalimpact on convective anvils.