Articles | Volume 22, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12467-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12467-2022
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23 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2022

Highly supercooled riming and unusual triple-frequency radar signatures over McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Frederic Tridon, Israel Silber, Alessandro Battaglia, Stefan Kneifel, Ann Fridlind, Petros Kalogeras, and Ranvir Dhillon

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The role of ice precipitation in the Earth water budget is not well known because ice particles are complex, and their formation involves intricate processes. Riming of ice crystals by supercooled water droplets is an efficient process, but little is known about its importance at high latitudes. In this work, by exploiting the deployment of an unprecedented number of remote sensing systems in Antarctica, we find that riming occurs at much lower temperatures compared with the mid-latitudes.
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