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11 Oct 2022
Technical note |
| 11 Oct 2022
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Technical note: Identification of two ice-nucleating regimes for dust-related cirrus clouds based on the relationship between number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles and ice crystals
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072,
China
Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of
Education, Wuhan 430072, China
State Observatory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Wuhan 430072, China
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan
University, Wuhan 430072, China
Fuchao Liu
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072,
China
Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of
Education, Wuhan 430072, China
State Observatory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Wuhan 430072, China
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072,
China
Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of
Education, Wuhan 430072, China
State Observatory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Wuhan 430072, China
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Short summary
A method is proposed to identify the sole presence of heterogeneous nucleation and competition between heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation for dust-related cirrus clouds by characterizing the relationship between dust ice-nucleating particle concentration calculated from CALIOP using the POLIPHON method and in-cloud ice crystal number concentration from the DARDAR-Nice dataset. Two typical cirrus cases are shown as a demonstration, and the proposed method can be extended to a global scale.
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