Ice crystal number concentration estimates from lidar–radar  satellite remote sensing – Part 2: Controls on the ice crystal  number concentration

Gryspeerdt, Edward; Sourdeval, Odran; Quaas, Johannes; Delanoë, Julien; Krämer, Martina; Kühne, Philipp

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14351-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14351-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14351-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 19

Research article

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09 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 09 Oct 2018

Ice crystal number concentration estimates from lidar–radar satellite remote sensing – Part 2: Controls on the ice crystal number concentration

Edward Gryspeerdt, Odran Sourdeval, Johannes Quaas, Julien Delanoë, Martina Krämer, and Philipp Kühne

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14351-2018-supplement

Data sets

Identification and classification of Cirrus (IC-CIR): A cirrus classification based on satellite and reanalysis data (2003–2013) E. Gryspeerdt, J. Quaas, T. Goren, D. Klocke, and M. Brueck https://doi.org/10.5285/cddfe3093be247d7bac56c9fa9edb3d5

Ice crystal number concentration from satellite lidar-radar observations (DARDAR-Nice) O. Sourdeval, E. Gryspeerdt, M. Krämer, T. Goren, J. Delanoë, A. Afchine, F. Hemmer, and J. Quaas https://doi.org/10.25326/09

Short summary

The concentration of ice crystals in a cloud affects both the properties and the life cycle of the cloud. This work uses a new satellite retrieval to investigate controls on the ice crystal concentration at a global scale. Both temperature and vertical wind speed in a cloud have a strong impact on the concentration of ice crystals. The ice crystal number is also related to the aerosol environment; defining this relation opens up new ways to investigate human impacts on clouds and the climate.