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pdftxt/GSD_CU_GF_deep.txt \
pdftxt/GSD_RUCLSM.txt \
pdftxt/GSD_THOMPSON.txt \
pdftxt/HWRF_FAMP.txt \
### pdftxt/GFSphys_namelist.txt \
### pdftxt/GFS_STOCHY_PHYS.txt \
pdftxt/suite_input.nml.txt \
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### HAFS
../module_MP_FER_HIRES.F90 \
../mp_fer_hires.F90 \
../module_mp_fer_hires_pre.F90 \
# ../module_mp_fer_hires_pre.F90 \
### utils
../funcphys.f90 \
../physparam.f \
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Expand Up @@ -17,12 +17,32 @@ represents the degree of riming onto snow-graupel, and takes into account the te
the impact velocity of the cloud droplet on the ice particle, and the size of the cloud droplet. For all
practical purposes, one can categorize precipitation ice as snow, graupel, or hail, similar to the ice
species predicted in other microphysical schemes based on the value of the RF. For example, an RF = 1
represents unrimed snow; lightly rimed snow occurs when 1 < RF < 2; heavily rimed snow when 2< RF \f$\leqslant\f$ 5;
represents unrimed snow; lightly rimed snow occurs when 1 < RF < 2; heavily rimed snow when 2< RF \f$\leq\f$ 5;
graupel when 5 < RF < 10; and frozen drops or hail when RF \f$geqslant\f$ 10. In reality, the RF knows
no arbitrary cutoff between different ice categories, and the categorizations above are somewhat subjective.
Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the FA scheme processes and each process is described in Table 1.

\image html FA_MP_schematic.png "Figure 1: Local Land-atmosphere Interaction (courtesy of Michael Ek)" width=10cm
\image html FA_MP_schematic.png "Figure 1: Schematic illustration of FA scheme processes with a description of each process in Table 1." width=10cm

Table 1. List of microphysical processes and their description. All processes are in units of \f$kg kg^{-1}\f$.
\tableofcontents
| Microphysical Source/Sinks | Description |
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| PIHOM | Homogeneous freezing of cloud water to ice. |
| PIDEP | Net ice deposition (> 0) or sublimation (< 0). |
| PINIT | Initiation (nucleation) of cloud ice. |
| PIACW | Cloud water collection by precipitation ice. |
| PIACWI | Cloud water riming onto precipitation ice at < 0 |
| PIACR | Freezing of supercooled rain to precipitation ice. |
| PIMLT | Melting of precipitation ice to form rain. |
| PICND | Condensation onto wet, melting ice. |
| PIEVP | Evaporation from wet, melting ice. |
| PCOND | Net cloud water condensation (> 0) or evaporation (< 0)|
| PRAUT | Droplet self-collection (Autoconversion) to form rain. |
| PRACW | Cloud water collection (Accretion) by rain. |
| PREVP | Rain evaporation. |
| PIACWR | Accreted cloud water shed to form rain at > 0 |
\tableofcontents

Owing to operational computation constraints, and unique to the FA scheme, the sedimentation process
does not use finite differencing of precipitation fluxes in the vertical in order to circumvent the
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An algorithm was developed in FA to improve stratiform rainfall by allowing the rain intercept parameter,
\f$N_{or}\f$, to vary with height and the mean drop diameter to be fixed below melting layers. This is
different from other single-moment microphysics schemes (WSM6 and Lin) that assume a constant value for
\f$N_{or}\f$. The algorithm in the FA scheme, simular to what is done in the Thompson scheme \cite thompson_et_al_2008,
\f$N_{or}\f$. The algorithm in the FA scheme, simular to what is done in the Thompson scheme \cite Thompson_2008,
assumes that a snow-graupel particle about to enter the melting layer from above has the same mean mass
as a drop formed from melting below the melting layer. The mean drop diameter calculated below the melting layer
acts as the lower limit for the mean drop sizes as the rain descends to lower levels. This algorithm is only
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reflectivity echoes that developed at the top of moist boundary layers, over the Southeastern U.S., within
warm conveyor belts, and over ocean areas covered by stratocumulus in the NMMB. The drizzle parameterization
uses a variable \f$N_{or}\f$ following Westbrook et al. (2010) \cite westbrook_et_al_2010, and approach
conceptually similar to that described in Thompson et al.(2008) for drizzle. Figure 2a
conceptually similar to that described in Thompson et al.(2008) \cite Thompson_2008 for drizzle. Figure 2a
shows an example of drizzle forming in a single low-level liquid cloud layer above \f$0^oC\f$, in which the
smaller, more numerous drizzle drops produce lower radar reflectivities, compared to rain, with \f$N_{or}=8\times10^6m\f$,
for example. For multiple cloud layers, drizzle from low clouds must be completely disconnected from rain formed
aloft from melting ice, such that a rain-free layer must seperate any stratiform rain layer aloft from drizzle formed
within liquid clouds at lower levels.Supercooled drizzle is also allowed to form from warm-rain processes below \f$0^oC\f$.
The quantity \f$N_{or}\f$ is modified only when the rainwater content is \f$< 0.5 gm^{-3}\f$, such that \f$N_{or}\f$ is
assumed to vary (red line in Fig.2b) with rain content (\f$\rho_\alpha\times q_r\f$) as

\image html FA_NOR_EQ.png " " width=10cm

\image html FA_DRI.png " Figure 2. (a) Schematic illustration of the drizzle parameterization for a single cloud layer in which drizzle forms from a low-level liquid water cloud at > 0C only when it is completely disconnected from rain formed from melting ice aloft. (b) The scatterplot from Westbrook at al.(2010) shows retrieved rain rate (R,mm/h) vs the mornalized rain intercept paramter (Nl in 1/m^4, where Nl=Nor for exponential distributions) based on lidar observations of drizzle. The different values of Nor described in (1) are overlaid on the figure with the red line showing the variation of Nor as a funciton of rain rate for rain contents between 0.02 and 0.5 g/m^3. " width=10cm


\section intra_famp Intraphysics Communication

+ For grid-scale condensation and evaporation of cloud process (\ref arg_table_zhaocarr_gscond_run)
+ For precipitation (snow or rain) production (\ref arg_table_zhaocarr_precpd_run)
\ref arg_table_mp_fer_hires_run

\section gen_famp General Algorithm
+ \ref general_gscond
+ \ref general_precpd
\ref gen_al_famp


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