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| $\textcolor{brown}{\textsf{COL}}$ | Collision/collection between liquid and ice |
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| $\textcolor{brown}{\textsf{SHD}}$ | Drop shedding |
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| $\textcolor{orange}{\textsf{HET}}$ | Heterogeneous freezing of cloud droplets and rain |
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| $\textcolor{orange}{\textsf{HOM}}$ | Homogeneous freezing of cloud droplets and rain |
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| $\textcolor{pink}{\textsf{MLT}}$ | Melting of ice |
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| $\textcolor{brown}{\textsf{WET}}$ | Particle densification due to wet growth in subfreezing temperatures |
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The naming convention for the process rates below is as follows:
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- The first letter describes whether the process involves a change in mass (Q), number (N), or volume (B) mixing ratio.
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- we currently formulate the scheme in terms of mass content [kg/m³] instead of specific mass [kg/kg], so rates for $L_{rim}$ and $L_{ice}$ are given in [kg/m³/s] instead of [kg/kg/s]
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- For source and sink processes that do not involve multispecies interaction, the second letter indicates the species as cloud water (C), rain (R), or ice (I).
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- For source/sink processes that involve multispecies interaction (i.e., the same process acting as a source for one species but a sink for another), the second letter (C, R, or I) indicates the species that is reduced as a result of the process.
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- The remaining three letters indicate the type of microphysical process as defined in the table above.
- The $\textcolor{pink}{\textsf{pink}}$ colors → melting (i.e. MLT)
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- The $\textcolor{lime}{\textsf{lime}}$ colors → deposition/sublimation (i.e. DEP, SUB)
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- The $\textcolor{magenta}{\textsf{magenta}}$ colors → nucleation (i.e. NUC)
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!!! note "Differences with Morrison & Milbrandt (2015)"
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There are numerous differences between the P3 scheme in Morrison & Milbrandt (2015) and the P3 scheme in this package:
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- the maximum freezing rate (wet growth limit) is computed at the particle level, instead of as a bulk process
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- changes in rime volume due to (dry) collisions with cloud and rain are computed at the particle level, with a local rime density evaluated as a function of both the liquid and ice particle diameters
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- in the wet growth regime, the densification process is computed as a rapidly adjusting bulk process, instead of instantenous particle-level densification. We also scale by the fraction of the mass rate that undergoes wet growth.
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Below, we describe the different processes in more detail.
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### Collisions with liquid droplets
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Collisions between liquid droplets (cloud or rain) and ice particles are parameterized
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by integrating the volumetric collision rate $∂_t\mathcal{V}$ [$\text{m}^3/\text{s}$]
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over the particle size distributions. The volumetric collision rate is on the form
-``E(D_i, D_l)`` is the collision efficiency (which we assume to be 1),
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-``K(D_i, D_l) = π (r_i + D_l/2)^2`` is the collision cross section,
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-``r_i`` is the effective radius of the ice particle, which is the radius of a circle with the same cross-sectional area as the (in general, non-spherical) ice particle,
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-``v_i(D_i)`` and ``v_l(D_l)`` are the terminal velocities of the ice particle and the liquid droplet, respectively.
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!!! note "Number of collisions per unit time"
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If we multiply ``∂_t\mathcal{V}_l(D_i, D_l)`` by the liquid droplet size distribution ``N_l(D_l)``, we obtain the kernel
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```math
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∂_t\mathcal{V}_l(D_i, D_l) N_l(D_l),
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```
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which represents the number of liquid droplets of size ``D_l`` colliding with an ice particle of size ``D_i`` per unit time. If we know, say, the mass of each liquid droplet, and integrate the mass-kernel over all liquid drop sizes, we get the total mass of the collected liquid droplets by an ice particle of size ``D_i``.
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The quantity $∂_t\mathcal{N}_{\text{col},l}(D_i)$ [$\text{s}^{-1}$],
Collisions with rain, cloud, and shedded wet growth all contribute to the rime volume.
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The change in rime volume is given by the change in mass divided by some rime density.
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!!! note "Local rime density parameterization"
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Following [MorrisonMilbrandt2015](@cite), we apply the Cober & List (1993) [CoberList1993](@cite) parameterization to calculate the local rime density for each collision pair.
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For an ice particle of size $D_i$ colliding with a liquid droplet of size $D_l$ (where $l ∈ \{c, r\}$ for cloud or rain), the rime density is given by
where $ρ^* = 900$ kg/m³ is the density of solid bulk ice, and $a_\text{CL}, b_\text{CL}, c_\text{CL}$ are the coefficients for the Cober & List (1993) parameterization [CoberList1993](@cite).
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The $R_i$ quantity is limited to the range $1 ≤ R_i ≤ 12$.
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Their values are $a_\text{CL} = 51$, $b_\text{CL} = 114$, and $c_\text{CL} = -5.5$.
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The change in rime volume at some diameter $D_i$ is then given by
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