Classification of Arctic, midlatitude and tropical clouds in the mixed-phase temperature regime

Costa, Anja; Meyer, Jessica; Afchine, Armin; Luebke, Anna; Günther, Gebhard; Dorsey, James R.; Gallagher, Martin W.; Ehrlich, Andre; Wendisch, Manfred; Baumgardner, Darrel; Wex, Heike; Krämer, Martina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12219-2017

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13 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 13 Oct 2017

Classification of Arctic, midlatitude and tropical clouds in the mixed-phase temperature regime

Anja Costa, Jessica Meyer, Armin Afchine, Anna Luebke, Gebhard Günther, James R. Dorsey, Martin W. Gallagher, Andre Ehrlich, Manfred Wendisch, Darrel Baumgardner, Heike Wex, and Martina Krämer

Data sets

ACRIDICON-CHUVA DLR HALO database https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/

VERDI/RACEPAC DShip platform of AWI https://dms.awi.de/

COALESC MetOffice FAAM database http://data.ceda.ac.uk//badc/faam/data/2011/

Short summary

The paper presents 38 h of in situ cloud spectrometer observations of microphysical cloud properties in the Arctic, midlatitudes and tropics. The clouds are classified via particle concentrations, size distributions, and – as a novelty – small particle aspherical fractions. Cloud-type profiles are given for different temperatures and locations. The results confine regions where different cloud transformation processes occurred and emphasise the importance of small particle shape detection.