IGF



Research group

Microphysics of clouds

Atmospheric Physics Department

Research Group Leader:


We investigate the microphysics and dynamics of convective clouds in a wide range of spatial and temporal scales: from the detailed microphysics of individual aerosol and cloud droplets (activation, growth by condensation, and collision-coalescence), to the motion of the whole cloud. To answer our research questions, we develop and apply a Lagrangian Cloud Model, where the cloud-scale flow computed by Large-Eddy Simulations is coupled with a Lagrangian description of the cloud-particle microphysics.

Numerical modeling software developed by our group:

libmpdata++ - library of solvers of the generalized transport equation
https://github.com/igfuw/libmpdataxx/

libcloudph++ - library for modeling cloud microphysics
https://github.com/igfuw/libcloudphxx/wiki

UWLCM - LES model model based on libmpdata++ and libcoudph++
https://github.com/igfuw/UWLCM

Research project

prof. dr hab. Hanna Pawłowska
dr Gustavo Abade
dr Piotr Dziekan
dr Valerian Jewtoukoff
mgr inż. Daniel Albuquerque
mgr inż. Piotr Żmijewski

Associates

prof. dr hab. Wojciech Grabowski - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
prof. dr Piotr Smolarkiewicz - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
dr Shin-ichiro Shima - University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan

dr Maciej Waruszewski
dr Sylwester Arabas
dr Anna Jaruga