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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3463-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3463-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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16 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 16 Mar 2016
A microphysics guide to cirrus clouds – Part 1: Cirrus types
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
Christian Rolf
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
Anna Luebke
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
formerly at: University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO,
USA
Armin Afchine
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
Nicole Spelten
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
Anja Costa
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
Jessica Meyer
Research Center Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate
Research-7, Jülich, Germany
now at: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Unit “Exposure Scenarios”, Dortmund, Germany
Martin Zöger
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-
und Raumfahrt, Flugexperimente – Mess- und Sensortechnik, Wessling, Germany
Jessica Smith
Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
Robert L. Herman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Bernhard Buchholz
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
now at: Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA
Volker Ebert
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Darrel Baumgardner
Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO, USA
Stephan Borrmann
Johannes-Gutenberg University and Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Marcus Klingebiel
Johannes-Gutenberg University and Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
now at: Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Linnea Avallone
Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences,
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA
formerly at: University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO,
USA
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Short summary
A guide to cirrus clouds is compiled from extensive model simulations and aircraft observations. Two types of cirrus are found: rather thin in situ cirrus that form directly as ice and thicker liquid origin cirrus consisting of uplifted frozen liquid drops. Over Europe, thinner in situ and liquid origin cirrus occur often together with frontal systems, while over the US and the Tropics, thick liquid origin cirrus formed in large convective systems are detected more frequently.
A guide to cirrus clouds is compiled from extensive model simulations and aircraft observations....
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