Ice aggregation in low‐level mixed‐phase clouds at a high Arctic site: Enhanced by dendritic growth and absent close to the melting level

G Chellini, R Gierens, S Kneifel - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐level mixed‐phase clouds (MPCs) occur extensively in the Arctic, and are known to
play a key role for the energy budget. While their characteristic structure is nowadays well …

Characterization of the spatial distribution of the thermodynamic phase within mixed‐phase clouds using satellite observations

Q Coopman, I Tan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Models assume that mixed‐phase clouds consist of uniformly mixed ice crystals
and liquid cloud droplets when observations have shown that they consist of clusters, or …

Nonturbulent liquid‐bearing polar clouds: Observed frequency of occurrence and simulated sensitivity to gravity waves

I Silber, AM Fridlind, J Verlinde… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A common feature of polar liquid‐bearing clouds (LBCs) is radiatively driven turbulence,
which may variously alter cloud lifecycle via vertical mixing, droplet activation, and …

[HTML][HTML] Low-level mixed-phase clouds at the high Arctic site of Ny-Ålesund: A comprehensive long-term dataset of remote sensing observations

G Chellini, R Gierens, K Ebell, T Kiszler… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
We present a comprehensive quality-controlled 15-month dataset of remote sensing
observations of low-level mixed-phase clouds (LLMPCs) taken at the high Arctic site of Ny …

[HTML][HTML] A new airborne broadband radiometer system and an efficient method to correct dynamic thermal offsets

A Ehrlich, M Zöger, A Giez, V Nenakhov… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
The instrumentation of the High Altitude and Long Range (HALO) research aircraft is
extended by the new Broadband AirCrAft RaDiometer Instrumentation (BACARDI) to …

Persistent supercooled drizzle at temperatures below− 25 C observed at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

I Silber, AM Fridlind, J Verlinde… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rarity of reports in the literature of brief and spatially limited observations of drizzle at
temperatures below− 20° C suggest that riming and other temperature‐dependent cloud …

Insights on sources and formation mechanisms of liquid-bearing clouds over MOSAiC examined from a Lagrangian framework

I Silber, MD Shupe - Elem Sci Anth, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Understanding Arctic stratiform liquid-bearing cloud life cycles and properly representing
these life cycles in models is crucial for evaluations of cloud feedbacks as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Radar-based Bayesian estimation of ice crystal growth parameters within a microphysical model

RS Schrom, M van Lier-Walqui… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The potential for polarimetric Doppler radar measurements to improve predictions of ice
microphysical processes within an idealized model–observational framework is examined …

Habit‐dependent vapor growth modulates Arctic supercooled water occurrence

I Silber, PS McGlynn, JY Harrington… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present an analysis of long‐term data collected at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, to explore the
impacts of cloud processes on the probability of finding supercooled water given cloud …

Impacts of Cyclones on Arctic Clouds during Autumn in the Early 21st Century

X Liu, Y Diao, R Sun, Q Gong - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Our study shows that, during 2001–2017, when the sea ice was melting rapidly, cyclone
days accounted for more than 50% of the total autumn days at the sounding stations in the …