Articles | Volume 21, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13593-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13593-2021
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13 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 13 Sep 2021

Supercooled liquid water and secondary ice production in Kelvin–Helmholtz instability as revealed by radar Doppler spectra observations

Haoran Li, Alexei Korolev, and Dmitri Moisseev

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Supercooled liquid water and secondary ice production in Kelvin–Helmholtz instability Haoran Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4019602

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Kelvin–Helmholtz (K–H) clouds embedded in a stratiform precipitation event were uncovered via radar Doppler spectral analysis. Given the unprecedented detail of the observations, we show that multiple populations of secondary ice columns were generated in the pockets where larger cloud droplets are formed and not at some constant level within the cloud. Our results highlight that the K–H instability is favorable for liquid droplet growth and secondary ice formation.
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