Processes of (Sub) Cloud Scales: Modeling, Observations and Parameterizations

Session ID#: 280197

Session Description:
Clouds continue to challenge our understanding and are major sources of uncertainty in numerical weather prediction and climate projection. Key to addressing such outstanding challenges associated with clouds are to understand the processes that occur at space-time scales of individual clouds or smaller, including entrainment/detrainment, turbulent mixing, turbulence, cloud microphysics, radiation, aerosol activation/deactivation, and boundary layer processes. These sub-grid cloud processes pose particular challenges to numerical simulations, observations, as well as parameterization development, where AI can help unravel process mechanisms and advance parameterization schemes efficiently. Representations of these sub-grid cloud processes will likely become more important as models increase their resolutions. This session focuses on process-level modeling, observations (both laboratory and field), AI-aided analysis  and parameterizations of cloud processes. Also invited are studies on unified treatment of different processes, process coupling, and integration from observations, theories to models.
Index Terms:

3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3379 Turbulence [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Chunsong Lu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Lulin Xue, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Alexei Korolev, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
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