Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds
The Arctic is very susceptible to climate change and thus is warming much faster than the rest of the world. Clouds influence terrestrial and solar radiative fluxes and thereby impact the amplified Arctic warming. The partitioning of thermodynamic phases (i.e., ice crystals and water droplets) withi...
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ftethz:oai:www.research-collection.ethz.ch:20.500.11850/590820 2023-05-15T14:46:05+02:00 Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds Pasquier, Julie Thérèse Henneberger, Jan Ramelli, Fabiola Lauber, Annika David, Robert Oscar Wieder, Jörg Carlsen, Tim Gierens, Rosa Maturilli, Marion Lohmann, Ulrike 2022 application/application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/590820 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000590820 en eng Copernicus info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-22-15579-2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000898114300001 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/821205 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNF/Projekte MINT/175824 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/590820 doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000590820 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC-BY Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (23) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftethz https://doi.org/20.500.11850/590820 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000590820 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15579-2022 2023-02-13T01:17:54Z The Arctic is very susceptible to climate change and thus is warming much faster than the rest of the world. Clouds influence terrestrial and solar radiative fluxes and thereby impact the amplified Arctic warming. The partitioning of thermodynamic phases (i.e., ice crystals and water droplets) within mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) especially influences their radiative properties. However, the processes responsible for ice crystal formation remain only partially characterized. In particular, so-called secondary ice production (SIP) processes, which create supplementary ice crystals from primary ice crystals and the environmental conditions that they occur in, are poorly understood. The microphysical properties of Arctic MPCs were measured during the Ny-Ålesund AeroSol Cloud ExperimENT (NASCENT) campaign to obtain a better understanding of the atmospheric conditions favorable for the occurrence of SIP processes. To this aim, the in situ cloud microphysical properties retrieved by a holographic cloud imager mounted on a tethered balloon system were complemented by ground-based remote sensing and ice-nucleating particle measurements. During the 6 d investigated in this study, SIP occurred during about 40 % of the in-cloud measurements, and high SIP events with number concentrations larger than 10 L−1 of small pristine ice crystals occurred in 4 % of the in-cloud measurements. This demonstrates the role of SIP for Arctic MPCs. The highest concentrations of small pristine ice crystals were produced at temperatures between −5 and −3 ∘C and were related to the occurrence of supercooled large droplets freezing upon collision with ice crystals. This suggests that a large fraction of ice crystals in Arctic MPCs are produced via the droplet-shattering mechanism. From evaluating the ice crystal images, we could identify ice–ice collision as a second SIP mechanism that dominated when fragile ice crystals were observed. Moreover, SIP occurred over a large temperature range and was observed in up to 80 % of the measurements down to ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund ETH Zürich Research Collection Arctic Ny-Ålesund |
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The Arctic is very susceptible to climate change and thus is warming much faster than the rest of the world. Clouds influence terrestrial and solar radiative fluxes and thereby impact the amplified Arctic warming. The partitioning of thermodynamic phases (i.e., ice crystals and water droplets) within mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) especially influences their radiative properties. However, the processes responsible for ice crystal formation remain only partially characterized. In particular, so-called secondary ice production (SIP) processes, which create supplementary ice crystals from primary ice crystals and the environmental conditions that they occur in, are poorly understood. The microphysical properties of Arctic MPCs were measured during the Ny-Ålesund AeroSol Cloud ExperimENT (NASCENT) campaign to obtain a better understanding of the atmospheric conditions favorable for the occurrence of SIP processes. To this aim, the in situ cloud microphysical properties retrieved by a holographic cloud imager mounted on a tethered balloon system were complemented by ground-based remote sensing and ice-nucleating particle measurements. During the 6 d investigated in this study, SIP occurred during about 40 % of the in-cloud measurements, and high SIP events with number concentrations larger than 10 L−1 of small pristine ice crystals occurred in 4 % of the in-cloud measurements. This demonstrates the role of SIP for Arctic MPCs. The highest concentrations of small pristine ice crystals were produced at temperatures between −5 and −3 ∘C and were related to the occurrence of supercooled large droplets freezing upon collision with ice crystals. This suggests that a large fraction of ice crystals in Arctic MPCs are produced via the droplet-shattering mechanism. From evaluating the ice crystal images, we could identify ice–ice collision as a second SIP mechanism that dominated when fragile ice crystals were observed. Moreover, SIP occurred over a large temperature range and was observed in up to 80 % of the measurements down to ... |
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Pasquier, Julie Thérèse Henneberger, Jan Ramelli, Fabiola Lauber, Annika David, Robert Oscar Wieder, Jörg Carlsen, Tim Gierens, Rosa Maturilli, Marion Lohmann, Ulrike Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Pasquier, Julie Thérèse Henneberger, Jan Ramelli, Fabiola Lauber, Annika David, Robert Oscar Wieder, Jörg Carlsen, Tim Gierens, Rosa Maturilli, Marion Lohmann, Ulrike |
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Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Conditions favorable for secondary ice production in Arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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conditions favorable for secondary ice production in arctic mixed-phase clouds |
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Arctic Climate change Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund |
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (23) |
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