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@ARTICLE{Frey:17014,
author = {Frey, W. and Borrmann, S. and Kunkel, D. and Weigel, R. and
de Reus, M. and Schlager, H. and Roiger, A. and Voigt, C.
and Hoor, P. and Curtius, J. and Krämer, M. and Schiller,
C. and Volk, C.M. and Homan, M. and Fierli, F. and Di
Donfrancesco, G. and Ulanovsky, A. and Ravegnani, F. and
Sitnikov, N.M. and Viciani, S. and D'Amato, F. and Shur,
G.N. and Belyaev, G.V. and Law, K.S. and Cairo, F.},
title = {{I}n-situ measurements of tropical cloud properties in the
{W}est {A}frican monsoon: upper tropospheric ice clouds,
mesoscale convective system outflow, and subvisual cirrus},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {11},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-17014},
pages = {5569 - 5590},
year = {2011},
note = {The SCOUT-O3 and SCOUT-AMMA projects were funded by the
European Commission through Contract
505390-GOCE-CT-2004-505390 and the EC Integrated Projects
AMMA-EU (Contract no. 004089-2). The M-55 Geophysica
campaign was supported by the EEIG-Geophysica Consortium,
CNRS-INSU, CNES, and EUFAR. Meteosat Second Generation data
were provided by the AMMA database
(http://aoc.amma-international.org/observation/satellite/)
and were processed including the flight tracks by Sylwester
Arabas from the University of Warsaw, Poland.Based on a
French initiative, AMMA was built by an international
scientific group and funded by a large number of agencies,
especially from France, the United Kingdom, the United
States, Africa, and - for us - German sources. It has been a
beneficiary of a major financial contribution from the
European Community Sixth Framework Programme (AMMA-EU).
Significant financial support for our activities with the
M-55 Geophysica in Australia and Burkina Faso also was
supplied by the Max Planck Society.For the CIP data
processing we gratefully acknowledge help from Aaron
Bansemer (NCAR, Boulder, Co, USA). For very helpful comments
on the manuscript we thank Jasmine Cetrone from the
University of Washington, Seattle, USA. We thank Stefano
Balestri, Ana Alfaro Martinez (ERS), and the pilots,
engineers, crew of the M-55 Geophysica. The local
authorities, scientists and staff in Ouagadougou (Burkina
Faso) were wonderful hosts, and we thank for their amazing
hospitality and support during this in many respects
challenging campaign in Burkina Faso, which for all of us
was a deeply moving life experience. Special thanks are due
to Toro Drabo from the University in Ouagadougou. We
grateful acknowledge the constructive and helpful comments
by Darrel Baumgardner, Grant Allen, and the two anonymous
referees.},
abstract = {In situ measurements of ice crystal size distributions in
tropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS) clouds
were performed during the SCOUT-AMMA campaign over West
Africa in August 2006. The cloud properties were measured
with a Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP-100) and
a Cloud Imaging Probe (CIP) operated aboard the Russian high
altitude research aircraft M-55 Geophysica with the mission
base in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. A total of 117 ice
particle size distributions were obtained from the
measurements in the vicinity of Mesoscale Convective Systems
(MCS). Two to four modal lognormal size distributions were
fitted to the average size distributions for different
potential temperature bins. The measurements showed
proportionately more large ice particles compared to former
measurements above maritime regions. With the help of trace
gas measurements of NO, NOy, CO2, CO, and O-3 and satellite
images, clouds in young and aged MCS outflow were
identified. These events were observed at altitudes of 11.0
km to 14.2 km corresponding to potential temperature levels
of 346K to 356 K. In a young outflow from a developing MCS
ice crystal number concentrations of up to (8.3 +/- 1.6)
cm(-3) and rimed ice particles with maximum dimensions
exceeding 1.5mm were found. A maximum ice water content of
0.05 gm(-3) was observed and an effective radius of about 90
mu m. In contrast the aged outflow events were more diluted
and showed a maximum number concentration of 0.03 cm(-3), an
ice water content of 2.3x10(-4) gm(-3), an effective radius
of about 18 mu m, while the largest particles had a maximum
dimension of 61 mu m.Close to the tropopause subvisual
cirrus were encountered four times at altitudes of 15 km to
16.4 km. The mean ice particle number concentration of these
encounters was 0.01 cm(-3) with maximum particle sizes of
130 mu m, and the mean ice water content was about
1.4x10(-4) gm(-3). All known in situ measurements of
subvisual tropopause cirrus are compared and an exponential
fit on the size distributions is established for modelling
purposes.A comparison of aerosol to ice crystal number
concentrations, in order to obtain an estimate on how many
ice particles may result from activation of the present
aerosol, yielded low ratios for the subvisual cirrus cases
of roughly one cloud particle per 30 000 aerosol particles,
while for the MCS outflow cases this resulted in a high
ratio of one cloud particle per 300 aerosol particles.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000291939800003},
doi = {10.5194/acp-11-5569-2011},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/17014},
}