Breakups are Complicated: An Efficient Representation of Collisional Breakup in the Superdroplet Method

Published in Geoscientific Model Development, 2023

Recommended citation: de Jong, E., Mackay, J. B., Bulenok, O., Jaruga, A., and Arabas, S.: Breakups are complicated: an efficient representation of collisional breakup in the superdroplet method, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4193–4211, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4193-2023, 2023. http://edejong-caltech.github.io/files/2023-breakup.pdf

This work presents a method for representing collisional breakup in the Lagrangian superdroplet method, as well as sensitivity studies investigating the impact of breakup on idealized clouds.

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Recommended citation: de Jong, E., Mackay, J. B., Bulenok, O., Jaruga, A., and Arabas, S.: Breakups are complicated: an efficient representation of collisional breakup in the superdroplet method, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4193–4211, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4193-2023, 2023.