Articles | Volume 16, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12411-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12411-2016
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04 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 04 Oct 2016

What controls the low ice number concentration in the upper troposphere?

Cheng Zhou, Joyce E. Penner, Guangxing Lin, Xiaohong Liu, and Minghuai Wang

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We examined the different ice nucleation parameterization factors that affect the simulated ice number concentrations in cirrus clouds in the upper troposphere using the CAM5 model. We examined the effect from three different updraft velocities (from low to high), two different water vapour accommodation coefficients (α = 0.1 or 1), the effect of including vapour deposition onto pre-existing ice particles during ice nucleation, and the effect of including SOA as heterogeneous ice nuclei.
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