Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5119-2020
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
Development and technical paper
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30 Oct 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 30 Oct 2020

Collisional growth in a particle-based cloud microphysical model: insights from column model simulations using LCM1D (v1.0)

Simon Unterstrasser, Fabian Hoffmann, and Marion Lerch

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5119-2020-supplement

Data sets

Simulation/Plot Data of Coalescence/aggregation column model S. Unterstrasser https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4030878

Model code and software

Collisonal growth Column model LCM v1.0 S. Unterstrasser https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4031214

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Short summary
Particle-based cloud models use simulation particles for the representation of cloud particles like droplets or ice crystals. The collision and merging of cloud particles (i.e. collisional growth a.k.a. collection in the case of cloud droplets and aggregation in the case of ice crystals) was found to be a numerically challenging process in such models. The study presents verification exercises in a 1D column model, where sedimentation and collisional growth are the only active processes.
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