includes graupel

[eub]

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/info.html

The model utilizes 38 vertical full-sigma levels see below, and is run in
non-hydrostatic mode in order to limit pressure gradient force errors
over the complex terrain. An upper-radiative boundary condition is used
to allow gravity waves to radiate through the model top without being
reflected. The following table describes the phyics options we are
currently using:

Phyics Options:

Physics	Comments
CCM2 Radiation	We changed the effective ice radius as used in radcsw.F from the default 14.6 microns to 35 microns. We are using ICLOUD=1, using resolved clouds.
Reisner 2 Moist Physics	Includes graupel.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Graupel:

Heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except for the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm.

Sometimes distinguished by shape into conical, hexagonal, and lump (irregular) graupel.

http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=graupel1

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Snow pellets

(Also called soft hail, graupel, tapioca snow.)

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

Even though I realize it has a sensible explanation, it all still sounds like something out of Legal Daisy Spacing.

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

better link: http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/LDS.htm

[katybeth]

now i don't feel so bad posting about square dancing

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha. :)

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Are there people out here who understand a word of this? Just wondering.

[katybeth]

I understand 89% of the individual words in the pasted text and table. 90%, after marzipan_pig's explanation. 92%, if "phyics" is a misspelling of "physics."

[eub.livejournal.com]

Some people post about totally arcane things like bridge.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I was actually hoping for some kind of etymology of 'graupel' but I guess that is a lot to ask? I myself will use 'tapioca snow' to refer to this kind of 'small hail' in the future.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

And I found out I'm not pronouncing it right (in my head) at all:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/85/G0238500.wav

[katybeth]

OED says from German graupel(-wetter).

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I like 'wetter' or 'groats' better:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

graupel

SYLLABICATION: grau·pel
PRONUNCIATION: groupl
NOUN: See snow pellet.
ETYMOLOGY: German Graupel, diminutive of Graupe, hulled grain, probably of Slavic origin; akin to Russian krupa, groats.

[katybeth]

Probably is both. "Wetter" is "weather." Groats-weather.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I like the bucket soil model myself.

gropoppelpel