The sensitivity of intense rainfall to aerosol particle loading – a comparison of bin-resolved microphysics modelling with observations of heavy precipitation from HyMeX IOP7a

Kagkara, Christina; Wobrock, Wolfram; Planche, Céline; Flossmann, Andrea I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1469-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1469-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1469-2020

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27 May 2020

Research article |

| 27 May 2020

The sensitivity of intense rainfall to aerosol particle loading – a comparison of bin-resolved microphysics modelling with observations of heavy precipitation from HyMeX IOP7a

Christina Kagkara, Wolfram Wobrock, Céline Planche, and Andrea I. Flossmann

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RC1: 'Review of nhess-2019-321', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'reply to reviewer 1', Wolfram Wobrock, 10 Feb 2020
RC2: 'NHESS-2019-321-REVIEW', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'reply to reviewer 2', Wolfram Wobrock, 10 Feb 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 Feb 2020) by Christian Barthlott

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (06 Mar 2020) by Christian Barthlott

AR by Wolfram Wobrock on behalf of the Authors (06 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Mar 2020) by Christian Barthlott

AR by Wolfram Wobrock on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Apr 2020) by Christian Barthlott

AR by Wolfram Wobrock on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Over the Cévennes–Vivarais region in southern France, 5 h intensive rainfall covering an area of 1000 km² with more than 50 mm rain accumulation was observed during IOP7a of HyMeX. This study evaluates the performance of a bin-resolved cloud model for simulating this heavy-precipitation event. The simulation results were compared with observations of rain accumulation, radar reflectivity, temporal and spatial evolution of precipitation, 5 min rain rates, and raindrop size distributions.