Small ice particles at slightly supercooled temperatures in tropical maritime convection

Lloyd, Gary; Choularton, Thomas; Bower, Keith; Crosier, Jonathan; Gallagher, Martin; Flynn, Michael; Dorsey, James; Liu, Dantong; Taylor, Jonathan W.; Schlenczek, Oliver; Fugal, Jacob; Borrmann, Stephan; Cotton, Richard; Field, Paul; Blyth, Alan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3895-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3895-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3895-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

Research article

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31 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 31 Mar 2020

Small ice particles at slightly supercooled temperatures in tropical maritime convection

Gary Lloyd, Thomas Choularton, Keith Bower, Jonathan Crosier, Martin Gallagher, Michael Flynn, James Dorsey, Dantong Liu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Oliver Schlenczek, Jacob Fugal, Stephan Borrmann, Richard Cotton, Paul Field, and Alan Blyth

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RC1: 'Review of "Small Ice Particles at Slightly Supercooled Temperatures in Tropical Maritime Convection"', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jul 2019
SC1: 'Comment on Lloyd et al.', Benjamin Murray, 05 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of "Small Ice Particles at Slightly Supercooled Temperatures in Tropical Maritime Convection"', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Oct 2019
AC1: 'Author Response', G. Lloyd, 01 Dec 2019

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AR by G. Lloyd on behalf of the Authors (05 Dec 2019)

ED: Publish as is (31 Jan 2020) by Ottmar Möhler

AR by G. Lloyd on behalf of the Authors (10 Feb 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Measurements of liquid and ice cloud particles were made using an aircraft to penetrate fresh growing convective clouds in the tropical Atlantic. We found small ice particles at surprisingly high temperatures just below freezing. At colder temperatures secondary ice processes rapidly generated high concentrations of ice crystals.