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Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6923-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6923-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
Research article
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22 Jun 2023
Research article |  | 22 Jun 2023

A simple model to assess the impact of gravity waves on ice-crystal populations in the tropical tropopause layer

Milena Corcos, Albert Hertzog, Riwal Plougonven, and Aurélien Podglajen

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The role of gravity waves on tropical cirrus clouds and air-parcel dehydration was studied using the combination of Lagrangian observations of temperature fluctuations from superpressure balloons and a 1.5D model. The inclusion of the gravity waves to a reference simulation of a slow ascent around the cold-point tropopause drastically increases ice-crystal density, cloud fraction, and air-parcel dehydration, and it produces a crystal size distribution that agrees better with observations.
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