Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Group

Jeroen Derksen

Research Interests

My main research interest is the interaction between cloud microphysics and cloud dynamics, especially during the process of rain formation. It is known that aerosol sizedistribution and chemical content influence the cloud droplet number concentration and sizedistribution. These cloud properties control for a part the collision-coalescence efficiency, i.e. the rain formation. But cloud dynamics, for example updraft and entrainment, have at least some influence, depending on the type of cloud. For instance, large hail can only be formed in a convective cloud having a strong updraft.

These considerations lead to my Phd project:
How important is the aerosol for rain formation, when cloud dynamics are taken into account as well?.

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