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@PHDTHESIS{Meyer:22871,
author = {Meyer, Jessica},
title = {{I}ce {C}rystal {M}easurements with the {N}ew {P}article
{S}pectrometer {NIXE}-{CAPS}},
volume = {160},
school = {Universität Wuppertal},
type = {Dr. (Univ.)},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {PreJuSER-22871},
isbn = {978-3-89336-840-2},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich : Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
year = {2013},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012; Universität
Wuppertal, Diss., 2012},
abstract = {Mixed-phase clouds consist of liquid droplets and ice
crystals and appear in the temperature range between
0$^{◦}$C and 40$^{◦}$C. They are in the focus of recent
research because model studies indicate that their degree of
glaciation have an impact on the cloud radiative properties.
Up to now, mainly the measurement of bulk liquid and ice
water content is used to investigate the mixed-phase cloud
glaciation process. This study, for the first time, presents
extensive size resolved laboratory and aircraft based
in-situ mixed-phase cloud observations. For this purpose,
the Novel Ice EXpEriment - Cloud and Aerosol Particle
Spectrometer (NIXE-CAPS), an established cloud particle
instrument, but equipped with an additional depolarization
detector to distinguish ice crystals and liquid droplets, is
used. The complete set of measured parameters includes
concentration and phase of cloud particles in the size range
of 0.61 $\mu$m to 937.5 $\mu$m. Here, the dependence of
mixed-phase cloud glaciation on the initial number of ice
active aerosol, relative humidity and temperature is
investigated for clouds generated in the AIDA cloud chamber
and for natural clouds observed on board of the British
aircraft BAE146 during the COALESC campaign over the UK in
2011. A significant difference in the degree of glaciation
is found for AIDA mixed-phase clouds evolved in either sub-
or supersaturated humidity conditions with respect to water
(RHw). The droplet concentration in supersaturated RHw
regimes is constantly high (around 500 cm$^{−3}$) over the
whole temperature range, since the droplets do not evaporate
(dropletice coexisting regime). Under subsaturated
conditions where evaporation of droplets occurs
(Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen regime), their concentrations
decrease with temperature from about 100 cm$^{−3}$ at 270
K to 1 cm$^{−3}$ at 235 K. This decrease in droplet
concentration is most likely caused by the increasing
difference of the water vapor saturation pressure with
respect to liquid and ice. Hence, the droplet concentration
in mixed phase clouds seems to be mainly driven by the
dynamic situation. The number of ice nuclei in the AIDA
chamber and thus the ice crystal concentration of the AIDA
clouds was constantly high. In the droplet-ice coexistence
regime, where also high liquid droplet concentrations are
observed, the resultant number fraction of frozen cloud
particles is only about 10 \% for all temperatures. In
contrast, in the subsaturated Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen
regime, the ice number fraction increases with decreasing
droplet concentration from about 20 \% at 270 K up to 80 \%
at 235 K. Thus, the colder AIDA clouds in the
Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen regions show a high degree of
glaciation which is expected for Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen
conditions, but complete glaciation does not occur.
Nevertheless, the ice mass fraction is very close to 100 \%,
since the remaining particles classified as droplets are
only small. The COALESC natural clouds are found to be
almost all in theWegener-Bergeron-Findeisen regime with
droplet numbers decreasing with temperature, as for the AIDA
clouds. However, the number of ice nuclei in the atmosphere
is much lower than in the AIDA chamber. Thus, the ice number
fraction observed for the COALESC natural clouds ranges only
from about 2 \% at 270 K up to 20 \% at 235 K. It is much
lower than for the respective AIDA clouds which glaciated in
an environment with a very high number of ice nuclei. The
measurements in the AIDA and COALESC mixed-phase clouds
illustrate how the degree of glaciation in mixed-phase
clouds is determined by both the thermodynamic situation of
the cloud and the number of ice nuclei, and, most
interestingly, that coexistence of droplets and ice is
possible in natural mixed-phase clouds in the
Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen regime, where complete glaciation
is believed to be the most probable state.},
cin = {IEK-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/22871},
}