Fine-scale Horizontal Structure of Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds.

• Main Authors: Rambukkange,M.;Verlinde, J., Elorante, E., Luke, E., Kollias, P., Shupe, M.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CLOUDS; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER; PHASE STUDIES; ICE; ARCTIC REGIONS; Arctic; Hallett; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/940810; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/940810

Recent in situ observations in stratiform clouds suggest that mixed phase regimes, here defined as limited cloud volumes containing both liquid and solid water, are constrained to narrow layers (order 100 m) separating all-liquid and fully glaciated volumes (Hallett and Viddaurre, 2005). The Departm...