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@ARTICLE{Krmer:276004,
author = {Krämer, M. and Rolf, C. and Luebke, A. and Afchine, A. and
Spelten, N. and Costa, A. and Zöger, M. and Smith, J. and
Herman, R. and Buchholz, B. and Ebert, V. and Baumgardner,
D. and Borrmann, S. and Klingebiel, M. and Avallone, L.},
title = {{A} microphysics guide to cirrus clouds – {P}art 1:
{C}irrus types},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics / Discussions},
volume = {15},
number = {21},
issn = {1680-7375},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-06502},
pages = {31537 - 31586},
year = {2015},
abstract = {The microphysical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds
continue to be beyond understanding and thus still represent
one of the largest uncertainties in the prediction of the
Earth's climate (IPCC, 2013). Our study aims to provide a
guide to cirrus microphysics, which is compiled from an
extensive set of model simulations, covering the broad range
of atmospheric conditions for cirrus formation and
evolution. The model results are portrayed in the same
parameter space as field measurements, i.e. in the Ice Water
Content-Temperature (IWC-T) parameter space. We validate
this cirrus analysis approach by evaluating cirrus data sets
from seventeen aircraft campaigns, conducted in the last
fifteen years, spending about 94 h in cirrus over Europe,
Australia, Brazil as well as Southern and Northern America.
Altogether, the approach of this study is to track cirrus
IWC development with temperature by means of model
simulations, compare with observations and then assign, to a
certain degree, cirrus microphysics to the observations.
Indeed, the field observations show characteristics expected
from the simulated cirrus guide. For example, high/low IWCs
are found together with high/low ice crystal concentrations
Nice.An important finding from our study is the
classification of two types of cirrus with differing
formation mechanisms and microphysical properties: the first
cirrus type is rather thin with lower IWCs and forms
directly as ice (in-situ origin cirrus). The second type
consists predominantly of thick cirrus originating from
mixed phase clouds (i.e. via freezing of liquid droplets –
liquid origin cirrus), which are completely glaciated while
lifting to the cirrus formation temperature region (< 235
K). In the European field campaigns, in-situ origin cirrus
occur frequently at slow updrafts in low and high pressure
systems, but also in conjunction with faster updrafts. Also,
liquid origin cirrus mostly related to warm conveyor belts
are found. In the US and tropical campaigns, thick liquid
origin cirrus which are formed in large convective systems
are detected more frequently.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244) / HITEC - Helmholtz
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate
Research (HITEC) (HITEC-20170406)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244 / G:(DE-Juel1)HITEC-20170406},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/acpd-15-31537-2015},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/276004},
}