The Improvement of Artificial Ice Crystal Parameterization of IAP Three Dimensional Convective Storm Model and Its Application to Case Study
CUI Ya-qin;XIAO Hui;WANG Zhen-hui;ZHOU Li-na
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Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;2. College of Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
On the base of IAP-CSM3D(Three-Dimensional Convective Storm Model) which was set up by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics(IAP),Chinese Academy of Sciences,its parameterization of artificial seeding was improved.The parameterization equations of microphysical processes that contact with artificial ice crystals were deduced.In the ameliorated model,the artificial ice crystals induced by cloud seeding were treated as a separate predictand.Natural ice crystals and artificial ice crystals were discretely considered in the ameliorated model comparing with its former.The size distribution of artificial ice crystals was considered as a double-moment parameterization to more accord with fact.Then a hailstorm event occurred in Chifeng City in North China on 8 July 2005 was simulated by the ameliorated model to analyze the influence of artificial ice crystals on hailfall and the microphysical processes of artificial ice crystals.The results show that the model simulation is very consistent with observation,indicating the improved IAP-CSM3D model has more credible ability in seeding simulation than its former.The results of the simulation of natural cloud show that frozen drop is the main hail embryo in the simulated hailstorm.The simulations also indicate that seeding AgI in the hailstorm may markedly decrease the hailfall amount,especially in the earlier stage of hailstone formation in the seeding cloud,seeding cloud may have the best effect of reducing hail shooting,which can obtain a maximal effectiveness of reducing hail shooting,under a condition that the seeding can keep a minimal reduction in its rainfall amount.The primary cause of reducing hailfall is that seeding can remarkably abate the transformation amount of frozen drops into hail embryos in the hailstorm.There are different contributions of artificial ice crystals to ice-phase precipitation particles at different stages of cloud development.Simulations illustrate that the artificial ice crystals have little contribution to snow but more to frozen drop and graupel.The simulated result also shows characteristics that artificial ice crystals have a narrower size distribution with a smaller average size and a larger concentration.
崔雅琴;肖辉;王振会;周丽娜.
The Improvement of Artificial Ice Crystal Parameterization of IAP Three Dimensional Convective Storm Model and Its Application to Case Study. Plateau Meteorology. 2007, 26(4): 798-811