Effects of ice microphysics on a tropical coupled system |
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| Authors: | Fan Ping Zhexian Luo Xiaofan Li |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States;2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States;1. Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA;2. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel;3. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA;5. NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA |
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| Abstract: | The effects of ice microphysics on tropical atmospheric and oceanic variability are investigated with a two-dimensional coupled ocean-cloud resolving atmosphere model forced by the large-scale vertical velocity and zonal wind derived from Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). The experiment without ice microphysics is compared to a control experiment with ice microphysics. Compared to the control experiment, the experiment without ice microphysics generates a more humid and colder atmosphere by suppressing stratiform clouds and rainfall and associated latent heating; the experiment without ice microphysics produces a saltier mixed layer by a larger saline forcing associated with a weaker stratiform rainfall. Ocean mixed-layer temperature is insensitive to the atmospheric variability associated with ice microphysics. |
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