Contrail formation within cirrus: ICON-LEM simulations of the impact of cirrus cloud properties on contrail formation

Verma, Pooja; Burkhardt, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8819-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8819-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8819-2022

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

Articles | Volume 22, issue 13

Research article

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08 Jul 2022

Research article |

| 08 Jul 2022

Contrail formation within cirrus: ICON-LEM simulations of the impact of cirrus cloud properties on contrail formation

Pooja Verma and Ulrike Burkhardt

Data sets

figures_and_data_for_manuscript_contrail_formation_within_cirrus_Verma_and_Burkhardt_07032022 Pooja Verma https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6337980

Short summary

This paper investigates contrail ice formation within cirrus and the impact of natural cirrus on the contrail ice formation in the high-resolution ICON-LEM simulations over Germany. Contrail formation often leads to increases in cirrus ice crystal number concentration by a few orders of magnitude. Contrail formation is affected by pre-existing cirrus, leading to changes in contrail formation conditions and ice nucleation rates that can be significant in optically thick cirrus.