Vertical Dependence of Horizontal Variation of Cloud Microphysics: Observations from the ACE-ENA field campaign and implications for warm rain simulation in climate models

Abstract

Z. Zhang acknowledges the financial support from the Atmospheric System Research (Grant DE607 SC0020057) funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the US DOE Office of Science. The computations in this study were performed at the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). The facility is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through the MRI program (Grants CNS-0821258 and CNS-1228778) and the SCREMS program (Grant DMS-0821311), with substantial support from UMBC. Co-author D. Mechem was supported by subcontract OFED0010- 01 from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Systems Research grant DE-SC0016522.