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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13013-2014
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Research article
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09 Dec 2014
Research article |
| 09 Dec 2014
Rare temperature histories and cirrus ice number density in a parcel and a one-dimensional model
D. M. Murphy
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NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Gravity waves amplify upper tropospheric dehydration by clouds M. Schoeberl et al. 10.1002/2015EA000127
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- On the Susceptibility of Cold Tropical Cirrus to Ice Nuclei Abundance E. Jensen et al. 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0274.1
- Observational constraints on the efficiency of dehydration mechanisms in the tropical tropopause layer A. Rollins et al. 10.1002/2016GL067972
- Sensitivities of Lagrangian modelling of mid-latitude cirrus clouds to trajectory data quality E. Kienast-Sjögren et al. 10.5194/acp-15-7429-2015
- Cirrus Clouds and Their Response to Anthropogenic Activities B. Kärcher 10.1007/s40641-017-0060-3
- What controls the low ice number concentration in the upper troposphere? C. Zhou et al. 10.5194/acp-16-12411-2016
- Homogeneous ice formation in convective cloud outflow regions B. Kärcher 10.1002/qj.3069
- Gravity waves amplify upper tropospheric dehydration by clouds M. Schoeberl et al. 10.1002/2015EA000127
- Microscale characteristics of homogeneous freezing events in cirrus clouds B. KÄrcher & E. Jensen 10.1002/2016GL072486
- Direct estimation of the global distribution of vertical velocity within cirrus clouds D. Barahona et al. 10.1038/s41598-017-07038-6
- Orographic Cirrus and Its Radiative Forcing in NCAR CAM6 K. Lyu et al. 10.1029/2022JD038164
- Process‐Based Simulation of Aerosol‐Cloud Interactions in a One‐Dimensional Cirrus Model B. Kärcher 10.1029/2019JD031847
- Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in the Tropical Tropopause Layer E. Jensen et al. 10.1029/2018JD028949
- Dominant role of mineral dust in cirrus cloud formation revealed by global-scale measurements K. Froyd et al. 10.1038/s41561-022-00901-w
- High‐frequency gravity waves and homogeneous ice nucleation in tropical tropopause layer cirrus E. Jensen et al. 10.1002/2016GL069426
- Effects of pre-existing ice crystals on cirrus clouds and comparison between different ice nucleation parameterizations with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5) X. Shi et al. 10.5194/acp-15-1503-2015
- A modelling case study of a large-scale cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer A. Podglajen et al. 10.5194/acp-16-3881-2016
- Lagrangian temperature and vertical velocity fluctuations due to gravity waves in the lower stratosphere A. Podglajen et al. 10.1002/2016GL068148
- The Impact of Mesoscale Gravity Waves on Homogeneous Ice Nucleation in Cirrus Clouds B. Kärcher et al. 10.1029/2019GL082437
- A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations M. Krämer et al. 10.5194/acp-20-12569-2020
- A simple model to assess the impact of gravity waves on ice-crystal populations in the tropical tropopause layer M. Corcos et al. 10.5194/acp-23-6923-2023
- Effect of gravity wave temperature fluctuations on homogeneous ice nucleation in the tropical tropopause layer T. Dinh et al. 10.5194/acp-16-35-2016
- A Stochastic Representation of Temperature Fluctuations Induced by Mesoscale Gravity Waves B. Kärcher & A. Podglajen 10.1029/2019JD030680
- Studies on the Competition Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Cirrus Formation B. Kärcher et al. 10.1029/2021JD035805
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The properties of cirrus clouds depend on the rate at which air cools as the cloud forms. Small-scale motions in the atmosphere have high rates of cooling. This usually leads to very small ice crystals. However, a few random cooling fluctuations will produce only a few ice crystals. This paper shows that these events are important even if they are rare: they lead to particles that sediment and influence a lot of air. The results show dehydration is less sensitive to details of ice nucleation.
The properties of cirrus clouds depend on the rate at which air cools as the cloud forms....
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