A long-term study of cloud residuals from low-level Arctic clouds

Karlsson, Linn; Krejci, Radovan; Koike, Makoto; Ebell, Kerstin; Zieger, Paul

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8933-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8933-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8933-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 11

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14 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 14 Jun 2021

A long-term study of cloud residuals from low-level Arctic clouds

Linn Karlsson, Radovan Krejci, Makoto Koike, Kerstin Ebell, and Paul Zieger

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8933-2021-supplement

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Arctic cloud and aerosol measurements from Zeppelin Observatory, Svalbard, November 2015 to February 2018, Version 1.0 L. Karlsson, R. Krejci, M. Koike, K. Ebell, and P. Zieger https://doi.org/10.17043/zeppelin-cloud-aerosol-1

Statistics on clouds and their relation to thermodynamic conditions at Ny-Ålesund using groundbased sensor synergy (https://cloudnet.fmi.fi/) Tatiana Nomokonova, Kerstin Ebell, Ulrich Löhnert, Marion Maturilli, Christoph Ritter, and Ewan O'Connor https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4105-2019

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Aerosol–cloud interactions in the Arctic are poorly understood largely due to a lack of observational data. We present the first direct, long-term measurements of cloud residuals, i.e. the particles that remain when cloud droplets and ice crystals are dried. These detailed observations of cloud residuals cover more than 2 years, which is unique for the Arctic and globally. This work studies the size distributions of cloud residuals, their seasonality, and dependence on meteorology.