The Prevalence of Precipitation from Polar Supercooled Clouds

• Main Authors: Silber, Israel, Fridlind, Ann M., Verlinde, Johannes, Ackerman, Andrew S., Cesana, Grégory V., Knopf, Daniel A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-993; https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2020-993/

Supercooled clouds substantially impact polar surface energy budgets but large-scale models often underestimate their occurrence, which motivates accurately establishing metrics of basic processes. An analysis of long-term measurements at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, combines...