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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15329-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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25 Oct 2018
Research article |
| 25 Oct 2018
| 25 Oct 2018
Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective clouds in the southwest of the United Kingdom
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 1000 E.
University Ave, Laramie, WY, USA
now at: Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences
Division, 9700 Cass Ave, Argonne, IL, USA
Jeffrey R. French
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 1000 E.
University Ave, Laramie, WY, USA
David C. Leon
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 1000 E.
University Ave, Laramie, WY, USA
now at: Alpenglow Instruments, Laramie, WY, USA
David M. Plummer
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 1000 E.
University Ave, Laramie, WY, USA
Sonia Lasher-Trapp
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, 105 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL, USA
Alan M. Blyth
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Alexei Korolev
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Cloud Physics and Severe
Weather Section, Downsview, ON, USA
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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.
This paper looks at microphysical observations of growing cumulus clouds in the southwest United...
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