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What Determines The Fate Of Rising Parcels In A Heterogeneous Environment?, Maren Brast, Roel A.J. Neggers, Thijs Heus
What Determines The Fate Of Rising Parcels In A Heterogeneous Environment?, Maren Brast, Roel A.J. Neggers, Thijs Heus
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© 2016. The Authors. We investigate the potential impact of the local environment on rising parcels in a convective boundary layer. To this end, we use data from an LES simulation of a shallow convective cloud field to feed a parcel model with a range of different local environments, representative of the heterogeneous environment inside a shallow cumulus cloud layer. With this method we can study the statistics of an ensemble of rising parcels, but also the behavior of individual parcels. Through the use of a heterogeneous environment, the interactions between different parcels are indirectly represented. The method, despite its …