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Measurement report: High Arctic aerosol hygroscopicity at sub- and supersaturated conditions during spring and summer
Andreas Massling
Robert Lange
Jakob Boyd Pernov
Ulrich Gosewinkel
Lise-Lotte Sørensen
Henrik Skov
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The processes that establish how mixed-phase closed-cell clouds transition to more open cellular structures are poorly known. First-of-its kind aircraft observations document such a transition in the presence of anomalously high aerosol concentrations over the Nordic Seas at cloud temperatures < -15 °C. The reduces the drop size, discouraging riming. Eventually, ice precipitation produces surface cold pools that drive the convective transition, despite strong counteracting surface fluxes.
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