Articles | Volume 21, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15115-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15115-2021
Research article
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12 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 12 Oct 2021

Sensitivity of precipitation formation to secondary ice production in winter orographic mixed-phase clouds

Zane Dedekind, Annika Lauber, Sylvaine Ferrachat, and Ulrike Lohmann

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The RACLETS campaign combined cloud and snow research to improve the understanding of precipitation formation in clouds. A numerical weather prediction model, COSMO, was used to assess the importance of ice crystal enhancement by ice–ice collisions for cloud properties. We found that the number of ice crystals increased by 1 to 3 orders of magnitude when ice–ice collisions were permitted to occur, reducing localized regions of high precipitation and, thereby, improving the model performance.
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