Sensitivity of mixed-phase moderately deep convective clouds to parameterizations of ice formation – an ensemble perspective

Miltenberger, Annette K.; Field, Paul R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3627-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3627-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3627-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

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10 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 10 Mar 2021

Sensitivity of mixed-phase moderately deep convective clouds to parameterizations of ice formation – an ensemble perspective

Annette K. Miltenberger and Paul R. Field

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RC1: 'Review of ACP-2020-253 : « Sensitivity of mixed-phase moderately deep convective clouds to parameterisations of ice formation - An ensemble perspective » from Annette K. Miltenberger and Paul R. Field', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Annette Miltenberger, 05 Feb 2021
RC2: 'referee comment on acp-2020-253', Anonymous Referee #3, 29 Dec 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Annette Miltenberger, 05 Feb 2021

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The formation of ice in clouds is an important processes in mixed-phase and ice-phase clouds. However, the representation of ice formation in numerical models is highly uncertain. In the last decade, several new parameterizations for heterogeneous freezing have been proposed. Here, we investigate the impact of the parameterization choice on the representation of the convective cloud field and compare the impact to that of initial condition uncertainty.