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Cloud chamber experiments on the origin of ice crystal complexity in cirrus clouds

Schnaiter, M. ORCID iD icon; Järvinen, E. ORCID iD icon; Vochezer, P.; Abdelmonem, A.; Wagner, R. ORCID iD icon; Jourdan, O.; Mioche, G.; Shcherbakov, V. N.; Schmitt, C. G.; Tricoli, U.; Ulanowski, Z.; Heymsfield, A. J.

Abstract:

This study reports on the origin of ice crystal complexity and its influence on the angular light scattering properties of cirrus clouds. Cloud simulation experiments were conducted at the AIDA (Aerosol Interactions and Dynamics in the Atmosphere) cloud chamber of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). A new experimental procedure was applied to grow and sublimate ice particles at defined super- and subsaturated ice conditions and for temperatures in the −40 to −60 °C range. The experiments were performed for ice clouds generated via homogeneous and heterogeneous initial nucleation. Ice crystal complexity was deduced from measurements of spatially resolved single particle light scattering patterns by the latest version of the Small Ice Detector (SID-3). It was found that a high ice crystal complexity is dominating the microphysics of the simulated clouds and the degree of this complexity is dependent on the available water vapour during the crystal growth. Indications were found that the crystal complexity is influenced by unfrozen H2SO4/H2O residuals in the case of homogeneous initial ice nucleation. Angular light scattering functions of the simulated ice clouds were measured by the two currently available airborne polar nephelometers; the Polar Nephelometer (PN) probe of LaMP and the Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering (PHIPS-HALO) probe of KIT. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000052456
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5194/acpd-15-30511-2015
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Zitationen: 7
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Aerosolforschung (IMKAAF)
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) – Interfakultative Einrichtungen (Interfakultative Einrichtungen)
Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2015
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1680-7367
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-524568
KITopen-ID: 1000052456
HGF-Programm 12.04.02 (POF III, LK 01) Cirrus Clouds
Erschienen in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
Verlag European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Band 15
Heft 21
Seiten 30511-30561
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