Primary and secondary ice production: interactions and their relative importance

Zhao, Xi; Liu, Xiaohong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2585-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2585-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2585-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 4

Research article

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25 Feb 2022

Research article |

| 25 Feb 2022

Primary and secondary ice production: interactions and their relative importance

Xi Zhao and Xiaohong Liu

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2585-2022-supplement

Data sets

Ice properties of single-layer stratocumulus during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 1. Observations (https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/nsa2004arcticcld) G. M. McFarquhar, G. Zhang, M. R. Poellot, G. L. Kok, R. McCoy, T. Tooman, A. Fridlind, and A. J. Heymsfield https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD008633

Model code and software

The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) (http://github.com/ESCOMP/CESM) G. Danabasoglu, J. F. Lamarque, J. Bacmeister, D. A. Bailey, A. K. DuVivier, J. Edwards, L. K. Emmons, J. Fasullo, R. Garcia, A. Gettelman, C. Hannay, M. M. Holland, W. G. Large, P. H. Lauritzen, D. M. Lawrence, J. T. M. Lenaerts, K. Lindsay, W. H. Lipscomb, M. J. Mills, R. Neale, K. W. Oleson, B. Otto-Bliesner, A. S. Phillips, W. Sacks, S. Tilmes, L. van Kampenhout, M. Vertenstein, A. Bertini, J. Dennis, C. Deser, C. Fischer, B. Fox-Kemper, J. E. Kay, D. Kinnison, P. J. Kushner, V. E. Larson, M. C. Long, S. Mickelson, J. K. Moore, E. Nienhouse, L. Polvani, P. J. Rasch, and W. G. Strand https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001916

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The goal of this study is to investigate the relative importance and interactions of primary and secondary ice production in the Arctic mixed-phase clouds. Our results show that the SIP is not only a result of ice crystals produced from ice nucleation, but also competes with the ice production; conversely, strong ice nucleation also suppresses SIP.