Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-103-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-103-2018
Development and technical paper
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12 Jan 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 12 Jan 2018

Lagrangian condensation microphysics with Twomey CCN activation

Wojciech W. Grabowski, Piotr Dziekan, and Hanna Pawlowska

Model code and software

bE_SDs v0.1 P. Dziekan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1050260

UWLCM v0.2 P. Dziekan and M. Waruszewski https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1043909

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Short summary
This paper introduces a novel approach to simulating ice-free clouds. The key process is formation and transport of cloud droplets that are represented through Lagrangian particles referred to as super-droplets. Each super-droplet represents a multitude of natural cloud droplets. The essential component of the scheme that makes it different and more efficient from previous approaches is the presence of super-droplets only within a cloud.