Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3929-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3929-2018
Development and technical paper
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28 Sep 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 28 Sep 2018

Improving collisional growth in Lagrangian cloud models: development and verification of a new splitting algorithm

Johannes Schwenkel, Fabian Hoffmann, and Siegfried Raasch

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Lagrangian cloud models are a powerful tool to understand cloud microphysics and are increasingly used in the cloud physics community. In this study we present a method designed to improve the warm cloud precipitation process in such models. Our results indicate that using this method is essential for a proper representation of the collisional process of warm clouds, while maintaining an appropriate computational demand.
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