TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulated polarimetric fields of ice vapor growth using the adaptive habit model. Part I
T2 - Large-eddy simulations
AU - Sulia, Kara J.
AU - Kumjian, Matthew R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Meteorological Society.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - The bulk adaptive habit model (AHM) explicitly predicts ice particle aspect ratio, improving the representation of microphysical processes and properties, including ice-liquid-phase partitioning. With the unique ability to predict ice particle shape and density, the AHM is combined with an offline forward operator to produce fields of simulated polarimetric variables. An evaluation of AHM-forward-simulated dual-polarization radar signatures in an idealized Arctic mixed-phase cloud is presented. Interpretations of those signatures are provided through microphysical model output using the large-eddy simulation mode of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Vapor-grown ice properties are associated with distinct observable signatures in polarimetric radar variables, with clear sensitivities to the simulated ice particle properties, including ice number, size, and distribution shape. In contrast, the liquid droplet number has little influence on both polarimetric and microphysical variables in the case presented herein. Polarimetric quantities are sensitive to the dominating crystal habit type in a volume, with enhancements for aspect ratios much lower or higher than unity. This synthesis of a microphysical model and a polarimetric forward simulator is a first step in the evaluation of detailed AHM microphysics.
AB - The bulk adaptive habit model (AHM) explicitly predicts ice particle aspect ratio, improving the representation of microphysical processes and properties, including ice-liquid-phase partitioning. With the unique ability to predict ice particle shape and density, the AHM is combined with an offline forward operator to produce fields of simulated polarimetric variables. An evaluation of AHM-forward-simulated dual-polarization radar signatures in an idealized Arctic mixed-phase cloud is presented. Interpretations of those signatures are provided through microphysical model output using the large-eddy simulation mode of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Vapor-grown ice properties are associated with distinct observable signatures in polarimetric radar variables, with clear sensitivities to the simulated ice particle properties, including ice number, size, and distribution shape. In contrast, the liquid droplet number has little influence on both polarimetric and microphysical variables in the case presented herein. Polarimetric quantities are sensitive to the dominating crystal habit type in a volume, with enhancements for aspect ratios much lower or higher than unity. This synthesis of a microphysical model and a polarimetric forward simulator is a first step in the evaluation of detailed AHM microphysics.
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U2 - 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0061.1
DO - 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0061.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020108002
SN - 0027-0644
VL - 145
SP - 2281
EP - 2302
JO - Monthly Weather Review
JF - Monthly Weather Review
IS - 6
ER -