Articles | Volume 25, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8943-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8943-2025
Research article
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14 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 14 Aug 2025

Ice crystal complexity leads to weaker ice cloud radiative heating in idealized single-column simulations

Edgardo I. Sepulveda Araya, Sylvia C. Sullivan, and Aiko Voigt

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Clouds composed of ice crystals are key when evaluating atmospheric radiation. The morphology of the crystals found in clouds is not clear yet, and even less clear is the impact on the cloud heating rate, which is essential to describe precipitation and wind patterns. This motivated us to study how the heating rate behaves under a variety of ice complexity and environmental conditions, finding that increasing complexity in high and dense clouds weakens the heating rate.
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