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@ARTICLE{Jorge:884900,
author = {Jorge, Teresa and Brunamonti, Simone and Poltera, Yann and
Wienhold, Frank G. and Luo, Bei P. and Oelsner, Peter and
Hanumanthu, Sreeharsha and Sing, Bhupendra B. and Körner,
Susanne and Dirksen, Ruud and Naja, Manish and Fadnavis,
Suvarna and Peter, Thomas},
title = {{U}nderstanding cryogenic frost point hygrometer
measurements after contamination by mixed-phase clouds},
journal = {Atmospheric measurement techniques},
volume = {-},
issn = {1867-1381},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-03305},
pages = {-},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Abstract. Balloon-borne water vapour measurements in the
(sub)tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
(UTLS) by means of frost point hygrometers provide important
information on air chemistry and climate. However, the risk
of contamination from sublimating hydrometeors collected by
the intake tube may render these measurements difficult,
particularly after crossing low clouds containing
supercooled droplets. A large set of measurements during the
2016–2017 StratoClim balloon campaigns at the southern
slopes of the Himalayas allows us to perform an in-depth
analysis of this type of contamination. We investigate the
efficiency of wall-contact and freezing of supercooled
droplets in the intake tube and the subsequent sublimation
in the UTLS using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). We
find that the airflow can enter the intake tube with
impingement angles up to 60°, owing to the pendulum motion
of the payload. Supercooled droplets with radii > 70 μm, as
they frequently occur in mid-tropospheric clouds, typically
undergo contact freezing when entering the intake tube,
whereas only about 50 $\%$ of droplets with 10 μm radius
freeze, and droplets 100 ppmv) in the stratosphere.
Furthermore, we use CFD to differentiate between
stratospheric water vapour contamination by an icy intake
tube and contamination caused by outgassing from the balloon
and payload, revealing that the latter starts playing a role
only at high altitudes (p},
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},
doi = {10.5194/amt-2020-176},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/884900},
}