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Research article
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03 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 03 Mar 2016
Understanding cirrus ice crystal number variability for different heterogeneous ice nucleation spectra
Sylvia C. Sullivan
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Ricardo Morales Betancourt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Donifan Barahona
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Athanasios Nenes
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
ICE-HT, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, 26504 Patras, Greece
IERSD, National Observatory of Athens, Palea Penteli, 15236, Greece
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Short summary
We use the adjoint model of a cirrus parameterization to quantify sources of crystal variability for various ice-nucleating spectra and output from CAM5.
The sensitivities can be directly linked to nucleation regime and
efficiency of various INP.
The lab-based spectrum calculates much higher INP efficiencies than field-based ones, owing to aerosol surface properties.
The sensitivity to temperature tends to be low, due to the compensating effects of temperature on INP spectrum parameters.
We use the adjoint model of a cirrus parameterization to quantify sources of crystal variability...
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