Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-613-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-613-2024
Research article
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17 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 17 Jan 2024

Supercooled liquid water clouds observed over Dome C, Antarctica: temperature sensitivity and cloud radiative forcing

Philippe Ricaud, Massimo Del Guasta, Angelo Lupi, Romain Roehrig, Eric Bazile, Pierre Durand, Jean-Luc Attié, Alessia Nicosia, and Paolo Grigioni

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HAMSTRAD Philippe Ricaud http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/spip.php?article961&lang=en

LIDAR – INO CNR in Antartide Massimo Del Guasta http://lidarmax.altervista.org/lidar/home.php

Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory Paolo Grigioni http://www.climantartide.it/dataaccess/RDS_CONCORDIA/index.php?lang=en

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Clouds affect the Earth's climate in ways that depend on the type of cloud (solid/liquid water). From observations at Concordia (Antarctica), we show that in supercooled liquid water (liquid water for temperatures below 0°C) clouds (SLWCs), temperature and SLWC radiative forcing increase with liquid water (up to 70 W m−2). We extrapolated that the maximum SLWC radiative forcing can reach 40 W m−2 over the Antarctic Peninsula, highlighting the importance of SLWCs for global climate prediction.
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