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@ARTICLE{Afchine:852457,
author = {Afchine, Armin and Rolf, Christian and Costa, Anja and
Spelten, Nicole and Riese, Martin and Buchholz, Bernhard and
Ebert, Volker and Heller, Romy and Kaufmann, Stefan and
Minikin, Andreas and Voigt, Christiane and Zöger, Martin
and Smith, Jessica and Lawson, Paul and Lykov, Alexey and
Khaykin, Sergey and Krämer, Martina},
title = {{I}ce particle sampling from aircraft – influence of the
probing position on the ice water content},
journal = {Atmospheric measurement techniques},
volume = {11},
number = {7},
issn = {1867-8548},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-05403},
pages = {4015 - 4031},
year = {2018},
abstract = {The ice water content (IWC) of cirrus clouds is an
essential parameter determining their radiative properties
and thus is important for climate simulations. Therefore,
for a reliable measurement of IWC on board research
aircraft, it is important to carefully design the ice
crystal sampling and measuring devices. During the ML-CIRRUS
field campaign in 2014 with the German Gulfstream GV HALO
(High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft), IWC was
recorded by three closed-path total water together with one
gas-phase water instrument. The hygrometers were supplied by
inlets mounted on the roof of the aircraft fuselage.
Simultaneously, the IWC is determined by a cloud particle
spectrometer attached under an aircraft wing. Two more
examples of simultaneous IWC measurements by hygrometers and
cloud spectrometers are presented, but the inlets of the
hygrometers were mounted at the fuselage side (M-55
Geophysica, StratoClim campaign 2017) and bottom (NASA WB57,
MacPex campaign 2011). This combination of instruments and
inlet positions provides the opportunity to experimentally
study the influence of the ice particle sampling position on
the IWC with the approach of comparative measurements. As
expected from theory and shown by computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) calculations, we found that the IWCs provided
by the roof inlets deviate from those measured under the
aircraft wing. As a result of the inlet position in the
shadow zone behind the aircraft cockpit, ice particle
populations with mean mass sizes larger than about 25µm
radius are subject to losses, which lead to strongly
underestimated IWCs. On the other hand, cloud populations
with mean mass sizes smaller than about 12µm are dominated
by particle enrichment and thus overestimated IWCs. In the
range of mean mass sizes between 12 and 25µm, both
enrichment and losses of ice crystals can occur, depending
on whether the ice crystal mass peak of the size
distribution – in these cases bimodal – is on the
smaller or larger mass mode. The resulting deviations of the
IWC reach factors of up to 10 or even more for losses as
well as for enrichment. Since the mean mass size of ice
crystals increases with temperature, losses are more
pronounced at higher temperatures, while at lower
temperatures IWC is more affected by enrichment. In
contrast, in the cases where the hygrometer inlets were
mounted at the fuselage side or bottom, the agreement of
IWCs is most frequently within a factor of 2.5 or better –
due to less disturbed ice particle sampling, as expected
from theory – independently of the mean ice crystal sizes.
The rather large scatter between IWC measurements reflects,
for example, cirrus cloud inhomogeneities and instrument
uncertainties as well as slight sampling biases which might
also occur on the side or bottom of the fuselage and under
the wing. However, this scatter is in the range of other
studies and represent the current best possible IWC
recording on fast-flying aircraft.},
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)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000438287600002},
doi = {10.5194/amt-11-4015-2018},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/852457},
}