Snowfall in Northern Finland derives mostly from ice clouds

• Main Authors: Mignani, Claudia, Zimmermann, Lukas, Kivi, Rigel, Berne, Alexis, Conen, Franz
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Sodankylä; Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-98; https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2022-98/

Cloud properties play a critical role in the Arctic surface energy budget. We present ground-level observations of snowfall coinciding with radiosonde launches in Sodankylä (67.367° N, 26.629° E) through a period of eight cold months (October–April) in 2019 and 2020. They comprise 7401 depositing sn...