Comparing contact and immersion freezing from continuous flow diffusion chambers

Nagare, Baban; Marcolli, Claudia; Welti, André; Stetzer, Olaf; Lohmann, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8899-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8899-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8899-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 14

Research article

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19 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 19 Jul 2016

Comparing contact and immersion freezing from continuous flow diffusion chambers

Baban Nagare, Claudia Marcolli, André Welti, Olaf Stetzer, and Ulrike Lohmann

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Nagare et al. 2016', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Response to referee 1', Claudia Marcolli, 24 May 2016
RC2: 'Reviewer comments to the manuscript "Comparing contact and immersion freezing from continuous flow diffusion chambers" by Nagare et al.', Alexei Kiselev, 15 Mar 2016
- AC2: 'Response', Claudia Marcolli, 24 May 2016
RC3: 'Referee comments for Nagare et al. 2016', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Mar 2016
- AC3: 'Response', Claudia Marcolli, 24 May 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Claudia Marcolli on behalf of the Authors (24 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 May 2016) by Hinrich Grothe

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (25 May 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Jun 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Jun 2016) by Hinrich Grothe

AR by Claudia Marcolli on behalf of the Authors (15 Jun 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

The relative importance of contact freezing and immersion freezing at mixed-phase cloud temperatures is the subject of debate. We performed experiments using continuous-flow diffusion chambers to compare the freezing efficiency of ice-nucleating particles for both these nucleation modes. Silver iodide, kaolinite and Arizona Test Dust were used as ice-nucleating particles. We could not confirm the dominance of contact freezing over immersion freezing for our experimental conditions.