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@INPROCEEDINGS{Li:1019850,
author = {Li, Yun and Mahnke, Christoph and Rohs, Susanne and Bundke,
Ulrich and Spelten, Nicole and Dekoutsidis, Georgios and
Groß, Silke and Voigt, Christian and Schumann, Ulrich and
Petzold, Andreas and Krämer, Martina},
title = {{O}bservational evidence of contrail cirrus in slightly
ice-subsaturation},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-05681},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Contrail cirrus, including line-shaped contrails, has a net
warming effect on theEarth’s climate. Of great importance
to estimate their radiative effect is the coverageand mean
optical thickness, which are closely associated with the
conditions affectingthe formation and microphysical
properties of contrail cirrus.This study focuses on cirrus
observations over central Europe and the NortheastAtlantic
from the airborne ML-CIRRUS campaign in 2014. Contrail
cirrus inthe cirrus dataset is identified using: (1) the
Schmidt-Appleman-Criterion, whichdetermines whether the
environmental conditions are suitable for contrail
formation,(2) an aircraft plume detection algorithm that
helps identify if a measured airmass originated from
aircraft exhaust, and (3) statistical analysis that
generates adescription of the general characteristics of
contrail and natural cirrus.The microphysical properties
(mass mean radius Rice, ice crystal number Nice andice water
content IWC) of contrail cirrus and natural cirrus will be
described in thiswork together with their occurrence
conditions. The preferred atmospheric conditionsof contrail
cirrus occurrence are identified. Of particular interest is
the existence ofcontrail cirrus in slightly ice-subsaturated
environments, where the relative humiditywith respect to ice
(RHice) centres around 90 $\%$ instead of ice
supersaturation, asbelieved hitherto. This also differs from
100 $\%$ RHice in natural cirrus. Inspectingthe occurrence
frequencies of air masses with RHice > 90 $\%$ compared to
RHice >100 $\%$ from passenger aircraft observations above
Europe and the North Atlanticduring the IAGOS-MOZAIC period
from 1995 to 2010, about 43 $\%$ of the air massesare prone
to contrail cirrus formation instead of 32 $\%$ found in
ice-supersaturatedenvironments. Our findings imply that the
avoidance of slight ice-subsaturation to ice-supersaturation
at cruising altitudes might further reduce the occurrence of
contrailcirrus, thus diminishing the climate impact of
contrail cirrus.},
month = {Jul},
date = {2023-07-23},
organization = {Workshop "Clouds Containing Ice
Particles", Mainz (Germany), 23 Jul
2023 - 26 Jul 2023},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {IEK-7 / IEK-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013 / I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {2112 - Climate Feedbacks (POF4-211) / 2111 - Air Quality
(POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1019850},
}