Long-Term Statistics of Riming in Nonconvective Clouds Derived from Ground-Based Doppler Cloud Radar Observations

• Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
• Main Authors: Kneifel, Stefan, Moisseev, Dmitri
• Other Authors: Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Department of Physics, Radar Meteorology group
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2021
• Subjects: Climatology; Cloud microphysics; Cloud water/phase; Ice particles; Icing; Cloud retrieval; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SNOWFALL MICROPHYSICS; WINTER STORMS; FALL SPEED; AGGREGATION; GROWTH; PARAMETERIZATION; 114 Physical sciences; Arctic; Rime
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/324277

Riming is an efficient process of converting liquid cloud water into ice and plays an important role in the formation of precipitation in cold clouds. Due to the rapid increase in ice particle mass, riming enhances the particle's terminal velocity, which can be detected by ground-based vertical...