Articles | Volume 23, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2393-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2393-2023
Research article
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22 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 22 Feb 2023

Sensitivity of convectively driven tropical tropopause cirrus properties to ice habits in high-resolution simulations

Fayçal Lamraoui, Martina Krämer, Armin Afchine, Adam B. Sokol, Sergey Khaykin, Apoorva Pandey, and Zhiming Kuang

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Sensitivity of convectively driven tropical tropopause cirrus to ice habit Fayçal Lamraoui https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PKDDEI

Model code and software

WRF University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/

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Short summary
Cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) can play a key role in vertical transport. We investigate the role of different cloud regimes and the associated ice habits in regulating the properties of the TTL. We use high-resolution numerical experiments at the scales of large-eddy simulations (LESs) and aircraft measurements. We found that LES-scale parameterizations that predict ice shape are crucial for an accurate representation of TTL cirrus and thus the associated (de)hydration process.
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