Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1469-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1469-2020
Research article
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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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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.
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