HR: 08:30h
AN: A51C-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Cirrus Cloud Microphysics - What is Important?
AU: * Starr, D O
EM: David.Starr@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 613.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Lin, R
EM: lin@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: GEST/UMBC, Code 613.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: Cirrus clouds result from mesoscale and synoptic lifting and convective detrainment. In climate applications and extended range forecasting, it is important to simulate the evolving extent and properties of cirrus clouds associated directly with weather systems and with more benign environments. This talk will provide insights gained from very detailed microphysical modeling studies of cirrus (bin model). Specifically, approaches used to represent ice cloud properties in cloud system and global models will be discussed in light of the results from high-resolution bin model studies.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry
DE: 3314 Convective processes
DE: 3337 Numerical modeling and data assimilation
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly