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تسجيل مستخدم جديدElectrical Route to Realising Intensity Simulation of Heavy Rain Events in Tropics
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In the backdrop of a revolution in weather prediction by Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, quantitative prediction of intensity of heavy rainfall events and associated disasters has remained a challenge. Encouraged by compelling evidence of electrical influences on cloud/rain microphysical processes, here we propose a hypothesis that modification of raindrop size distribution (RDSD) towards larger drop sizes through enhanced collision-coalescence facilitated by cloud electric fields could be one of the factors responsible for intensity errors in weather/climate models. The robustness of the hypothesis is confirmed through a series of simulations of strongly electrified (SE) rain events and weakly electrified (WE) events with a convection-permitting weather prediction model incorporating the electrically modified RDSD parameters in the model physics. Our results indicate a possible roadmap for improving hazard prediction associated with extreme rainfall events in weather prediction models and climatological dry bias of precipitation simulation in many climate models.
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