Articles | Volume 12, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4387-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4387-2019
Development and technical paper
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18 Oct 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Oct 2019

A Lagrangian convective transport scheme including a simulation of the time air parcels spend in updrafts (LaConTra v1.0)

Ingo Wohltmann, Ralph Lehmann, Georg A. Gottwald, Karsten Peters, Alain Protat, Valentin Louf, Christopher Williams, Wuhu Feng, and Markus Rex

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We present a trajectory-based model for simulating the transport of air parcels by convection. Our model extends the approach of existing models by explicitly simulating vertical updraft velocities inside the clouds and the time that an air parcel spends inside the convective event.