Articles | Volume 21, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9741-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9741-2021
Research article
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29 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 29 Jun 2021

Ice multiplication from ice–ice collisions in the high Arctic: sensitivity to ice habit, rimed fraction, ice type and uncertainties in the numerical description of the process

Georgia Sotiropoulou, Luisa Ickes, Athanasios Nenes, and Annica M. L. Ekman

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Mixed-phase clouds are a large source of uncertainty in projections of the Arctic climate. This is partly due to the poor representation of the cloud ice formation processes. Implementing a parameterization for ice multiplication due to mechanical breakup upon collision of two ice particles in a high-resolution model improves cloud ice phase representation; however, cloud liquid remains overestimated.
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