Microphysical and thermodynamic phase analyses of Arctic low-level clouds measured above the sea ice and the open ocean in spring and summer

Moser, Manuel; Voigt, Christiane; Jurkat-Witschas, Tina; Hahn, Valerian; Mioche, Guillaume; Jourdan, Olivier; Dupuy, Régis; Gourbeyre, Christophe; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons; Lucke, Johannes; Boose, Yvonne; Mech, Mario; Borrmann, Stephan; Ehrlich, André; Herber, Andreas; Lüpkes, Christof; Wendisch, Manfred

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7257-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7257-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7257-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

Research article

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03 Jul 2023

Research article |

| 03 Jul 2023

Microphysical and thermodynamic phase analyses of Arctic low-level clouds measured above the sea ice and the open ocean in spring and summer

Manuel Moser, Christiane Voigt, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Valerian Hahn, Guillaume Mioche, Olivier Jourdan, Régis Dupuy, Christophe Gourbeyre, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Johannes Lucke, Yvonne Boose, Mario Mech, Stephan Borrmann, André Ehrlich, Andreas Herber, Christof Lüpkes, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

DLR in-situ cloud measurements during AFLUX Arctic airborne campaign Manuel Moser and Christiane Voigt https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940564

DLR in-situ cloud measurements during MOSAiC-ACA Arctic airborne campaign Manuel Moser, Christiane Voigt, and Valerian Hahn https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940557

French Airborne Measurement Platform (PMA) cloud particle size distribution and volumic cloud particle diffusion properties dataset near Svalbard for AFLUX measurement campaign with POLAR 5 in 2019 Regis Dupuy, Christophe Gourbeyre, Guillaume Mioche, and Olivier Jourdan https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941498

French Airborne Measurement Platform (PMA) cloud particle size distribution and volumic cloud particle diffusion properties dataset near Svalbard for MOSAIC-ACA measurement campaign in 2020 Regis Dupuy, Christophe Gourbeyre, Guillaume Mioche, Manuel Moser, and Olivier Jourdan https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941538

Model code and software

ac3airborne (v0.9.1) Mario Mech, Nils Risse, Giancarlo Marrollo, and Daria Paul https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7305586

ac3airborne – flight-phase-separation (v0.9.5) Nils Risse, Giancarlo Marrollo, Daria Paul, and Mario Mech https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7305559

Short summary

This study provides a comprehensive microphysical and thermodynamic phase analysis of low-level clouds in the northern Fram Strait, above the sea ice and the open ocean, during spring and summer. Using airborne in situ cloud data, we show that the properties of Arctic low-level clouds vary significantly with seasonal meteorological situations and surface conditions. The observations presented in this study can help one to assess the role of clouds in the Arctic climate system.