Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective clouds in the southwest of the United Kingdom

Jackson, Robert; French, Jeffrey R.; Leon, David C.; Plummer, David M.; Lasher-Trapp, Sonia; Blyth, Alan M.; Korolev, Alexei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15329-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15329-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15329-2018

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

Articles | Volume 18, issue 20

Research article

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25 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 25 Oct 2018

Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective clouds in the southwest of the United Kingdom

Robert Jackson, Jeffrey R. French, David C. Leon, David M. Plummer, Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Alan M. Blyth, and Alexei Korolev

Data sets

MICROSCOPE: NCAS mobile X-band radar scan data from Davidstow Airfield, NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre L. Bennett https://doi.org/10.5072/4bb383b7d6ca421bbedd57b8097d5664

Flight Level Data from the University of Wyoming King Air during the Convective Precipitation Experiment- Microphysics and Entrainment Dependencies (COPE-MED), Version 1.0 University of Wyoming Research Flight Center https://doi.org/10.15786/M2MW2S

Wyoming Cloud Radar data from the University of Wyoming King Air during the Convective Precipitation Experiment- Microphysics and Entrainment Dependencies (COPE-MED), Version 1.0 University of Wyoming Research Flight Center https://doi.org/10.15786/M2H598

Short summary

This paper looks at microphysical observations of growing cumulus clouds in the southwest United Kingdom sampled during the COnvective Precipitation Experiment (COPE). Our results suggest that secondary ice production processes are contributing to the observed concentrations and that entrainment of particles from remnant cloud layers may have acted to aid in secondary ice production.