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