Mixed-phase clouds: Progress and challenges

A Korolev, G McFarquhar, PR Field… - Meteorological …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mixed-phase clouds represent a three-phase colloidal system consisting of water vapor, ice
particles, and coexisting supercooled liquid droplets. Mixed-phase clouds are ubiquitous in …

The atmospheric role in the Arctic water cycle: A review on processes, past and future changes, and their impacts

T Vihma, J Screen, M Tjernström… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric humidity, clouds, precipitation, and evapotranspiration are essential
components of the Arctic climate system. During recent decades, specific humidity and …

Evaluation of six atmospheric reanalyses over Arctic sea ice from winter to early summer

RM Graham, L Cohen, N Ritzhaupt… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study evaluates the performance of six atmospheric reanalyses (ERA-Interim, ERA5,
JRA-55, CFSv2, MERRA-2, and ASRv2) over Arctic sea ice from winter to early summer. The …

Process drivers, inter-model spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming

PC Taylor, RC Boeke, LN Boisvert, N Feldl… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Arctic amplification (AA) is a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean process. This
understanding has evolved from the early concept of AA, as a consequence of snow-ice line …

Low-level mixed-phase clouds in a complex Arctic environment

R Gierens, S Kneifel, MD Shupe, K Ebell… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Low-level mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) are common in the Arctic. Both local and large-scale
phenomena influence the properties and lifetime of MPCs. Arctic fjords are characterized by …

Contrasting ice formation in Arctic clouds: surface-coupled vs. surface-decoupled clouds

HJ Griesche, K Ohneiser, P Seifert… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
In the Arctic summer of 2017 (1 June to 16 July) measurements with the OCEANET-
Atmosphere facility were performed during the Polarstern cruise PS106. OCEANET …

Role of air-mass transformations in exchange between the Arctic and mid-latitudes

F Pithan, G Svensson, R Caballero, D Chechin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pulses of warm and moist air from lower latitudes provide energy to the Arctic and form its
main energy source outside of the summer months. These pulses can cause substantial …

The turbulent structure of the Arctic summer boundary layer during the Arctic summer cloud‐ocean study

IM Brooks, M Tjernström, POG Persson… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The mostly ice covered Arctic Ocean is dominated by low‐level liquid‐or mixed‐phase
clouds. Turbulence within stratocumulus is primarily driven by cloud top cooling that induces …

On the increasing importance of air-sea exchanges in a thawing Arctic: A review

PC Taylor, BM Hegyi, RC Boeke, LN Boisvert - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
Forty years ago, climate scientists predicted the Arctic to be one of Earth's most sensitive
climate regions and thus extremely vulnerable to increased CO2. The rapid and …

Covariance between Arctic sea ice and clouds within atmospheric state regimes at the satellite footprint level

PC Taylor, S Kato, KM Xu, M Cai - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the cloud response to sea ice change is necessary for modeling Arctic
climate. Previous work has primarily addressed this problem from the interannual variability …