The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators
Supercooled liquid clouds are common at higher latitudes (especially over the Southern Ocean) and are critical for constraining climate projections. We take advantage of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) to perform an analysis of observed and simulated cloud processes over...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00072915 2024-05-19T07:43:48+00:00 The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators Gettelman, Andrew Forbes, Richard Marchand, Roger Chen, Chih-Chieh Fielding, Mark 2024-04 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-599 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00072915 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00071104/egusphere-2024-599.pdf https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-599/egusphere-2024-599.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-599 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00072915 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00071104/egusphere-2024-599.pdf https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-599/egusphere-2024-599.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2024 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-599 2024-04-22T23:50:58Z Supercooled liquid clouds are common at higher latitudes (especially over the Southern Ocean) and are critical for constraining climate projections. We take advantage of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) to perform an analysis of observed and simulated cloud processes over the Southern Ocean in a region and season dominated by supercooled liquid clouds. Using a single-column version of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast's (ECMWF) Integrated Forecast System (IFS), we compare two different cloud microphysical schemes to ground based observations of cloud, precipitation and radiation over a 2.5 month period (January 1 – March 17, 2017). Both schemes are able to reproduce aspects of the cloud and radiation observations during MICRE to within the uncertainty of the data, when the thermodynamic profile is prescribed with relaxation. There are differences in water mass and representation of reflectivity between the schemes. A sensitivity study of the cloud microphysics schemes, one a bulk one-moment scheme, and the other a two-moment scheme with prediction of mass and number, indicates that several key processes create differences between the schemes. Surface radiative fluxes and total water path are highly sensitive to the formation and fall speed of precipitation. The prediction of hydrometeor number with the two-moment scheme yields a better comparison with observed reflectivity and radiative fluxes, despite predicting higher liquid water contents than observed. With the two-moment scheme, we are also able to test the sensitivity of the results to the input of liquid Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and Ice Nuclei (IN). The cloud properties and resulting radiative effects are found to be sensitive to the CCN and IN concentrations. More CCN and IN increase liquid and ice water paths respectively. Thus both the dynamic environment and aerosols, integrated through the cloud microphysics, are important for properly representing Southern Ocean cloud radiative effects. Article in Journal/Newspaper Macquarie Island Southern Ocean Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA |
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Supercooled liquid clouds are common at higher latitudes (especially over the Southern Ocean) and are critical for constraining climate projections. We take advantage of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) to perform an analysis of observed and simulated cloud processes over the Southern Ocean in a region and season dominated by supercooled liquid clouds. Using a single-column version of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast's (ECMWF) Integrated Forecast System (IFS), we compare two different cloud microphysical schemes to ground based observations of cloud, precipitation and radiation over a 2.5 month period (January 1 – March 17, 2017). Both schemes are able to reproduce aspects of the cloud and radiation observations during MICRE to within the uncertainty of the data, when the thermodynamic profile is prescribed with relaxation. There are differences in water mass and representation of reflectivity between the schemes. A sensitivity study of the cloud microphysics schemes, one a bulk one-moment scheme, and the other a two-moment scheme with prediction of mass and number, indicates that several key processes create differences between the schemes. Surface radiative fluxes and total water path are highly sensitive to the formation and fall speed of precipitation. The prediction of hydrometeor number with the two-moment scheme yields a better comparison with observed reflectivity and radiative fluxes, despite predicting higher liquid water contents than observed. With the two-moment scheme, we are also able to test the sensitivity of the results to the input of liquid Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and Ice Nuclei (IN). The cloud properties and resulting radiative effects are found to be sensitive to the CCN and IN concentrations. More CCN and IN increase liquid and ice water paths respectively. Thus both the dynamic environment and aerosols, integrated through the cloud microphysics, are important for properly representing Southern Ocean cloud radiative effects. |
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The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators |
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The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators |
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The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators |
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The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators |
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The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators |
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impact of cloud microphysics and ice nucleation on southern ocean clouds assessed with single column modeling and instrument simulators |
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