Glaciogenic seeding-induced hole-punch clouds and their sensitivity to the clouds' background state

Omanovic, Nadja; Bötticher, Debora; Fuchs, Christopher; Lohmann, Ulrike

doi:10.5194/acp-26-5345-2026

Articles | Volume 26, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-5345-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-5345-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 8

Research article

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21 Apr 2026

Research article |

| 21 Apr 2026

Glaciogenic seeding-induced hole-punch clouds and their sensitivity to the clouds' background state

Nadja Omanovic, Debora Bötticher, Christopher Fuchs, and Ulrike Lohmann

Data sets

Data input for reproducing the figures presented in the publication "Glacio- genic seeding-induced hole-punch clouds and their sensitivity to the clouds’ background state" N. Omanovic et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17482197

Model code and software

Scripts for figures in publication "Glaciogenic seeding-induced hole-punch clouds and their sensitivity to the clouds’ background state" N. Omanovic et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17481798

Short summary

The interplay of liquid and ice particles in clouds is a crucial driver for forming rain over land. We use numerical simulations to evaluate how fast clouds can be glaciated through ice particles and how this depends on different initial states of the cloud. We find that the more water a cloud contains, the longer the glaciation takes while any additional turbulent mixing does not have a major impact.