Corrigendum: "Lagrangian mixing dynamics at the cloudy-clear air interface" [J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 2564-2580]. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0294.1

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5-1-2017

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© 2017 American Meteorological Society. Two errors have been identified in the code used in the work by Kumar et al. (2014) and these require that several figures have to be revised. The central conclusions of the paper remain unaltered, but some interpretation of the figures in section 3 needs to be modified. To review, the original paper considers the response of droplets in cloudy filament due to turbulent mixing with dry air. The series of direct numerical simulations (DNS) consists of six runs. The three runs S1, S2, and S3 are simulations in which the fluid turbulence is kept statistically stationary by a volume forcing in the momentum equation. The three other runs D1, D2, and D3 considered decaying fluid turbulence. Both series of runs contain feedback of the buoyancy B to the velocity field. Digits 1, 2, and 3 denote the initial radii of the monodisperse cloud water droplet ensemble of R0 5 10, 15, and 20mm, respectively. These initial cloud water droplet radii result in initial liquid water contents (LWC) of 0.64 gm-3 for S1 and D1, 2.16 gm-3 for S2 and D2, and 5.11 gm-3 for runs S3 and D3. Numbers and the units have to be corrected in the third column of Table 2. These numbers are related to the slab volume of 51.2 3 51.2 3 22 cm3 in which the droplets are seeded randomly at the beginning. If the full box volume is taken, the values of the LWC have to be multiplied by a factor of 0.43.

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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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