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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15213-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15213-2021
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13 Oct 2021
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Aerosol–cloud interactions: the representation of heterogeneous ice activation in cloud models

Bernd Kärcher and Claudia Marcolli

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Aerosol–cloud interactions play an important role in climate change. Simulations of the competition between homogeneous solution droplet freezing and heterogeneous ice nucleation can be compromised by the misapplication of ice-active particle fractions frequently derived from laboratory measurements or parametrizations. Our study frames the problem and establishes a solution that is easy to implement in cloud models.
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