Influence of Mass and Radius of Ice Crystals on Hydrometeors, Internal Energy, and Kinetic Energy: A Numeric Model Study

RAN Ling-Kun¹, QI Yan-Bin², LI Na^1,³

Figure 3 a Vertical sections of spatially-averaged internal energies of Sice dashed line and Ctrl solid line units: J, b their difference units: J, and c the temporal section of the spatially-averaged difference of the internal-energy equations between Sice and Ctrl the solid line is the difference of internal-energy local changes; the long-dashed line is the difference of internal-energy advections; the short-dashed line is the difference of temperature-divergence coupling terms; the dot-dashed line is the difference of internal-energy thermal sources or sinks; and the dotted line is the difference of internal-energy moisture sources or sinks units: J s -1 .