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Sensitivity study of cloud-resolving convective simulations with WRF using two bulk microphysical parameterizations: Ice-phase microphysics versus sedimentation effects

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This study examines the relative importance of ice-phase microphysics and sedimentation velocity for hydrometeors in bulk microphysics schemes. The two bulk microphysics schemes having the same number of prognostic water substances, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Single-Moment 6-Class Microphysics Scheme (WSM6) and the Purdue–Lin scheme (PLIN), are evaluated for a 2D idealized storm case and for a 3D heavy rainfall event over Korea. The relative importance of microphysics and sedimentation velocity for ice particles is illuminated by the additional experiments that exchange the sedimentation velocity formula for graupel in the two schemes. In a 2D idealized storm simulation test bed, it is found that, relative to the PLIN scheme, the WSM6 scheme develops the storm late with weakened intensity because of a slower sedimentation velocity for graupel. Such a weakened intensity of precipitation also appears in a 3D model framework when the WSM6 scheme is used, in conjunction with the overall distribution of the precipitation band southward toward what was observed. The major reason is found to be the ice-phase microphysics of the WSM6 and related ice-cloud–radiation feedback, rather than the smaller terminal velocity for graupel in the WSM6 than in the PLIN scheme.

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