Investigating the vertical extent and short-wave radiative effects of the ice phase in Arctic summertime low-level clouds

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作者
Jaervinen, Emma [1 ]
Nehlert, Franziska [1 ]
Xu, Guanglang [1 ]
Waitz, Fritz [1 ]
Mioche, Guillaume [2 ]
Dupuy, Regis [2 ]
Jourdan, Olivier [2 ]
Schnaiter, Martin [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Meteorol & Climate Res, Dept Atmospher Aerosol Res, Karlsruhe, Germany
[2] Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, OPGC, Lab Meteorol Phys LaMP, Clermont Ferrand, France
[3] schnaiTEC GmbH, Bruchsal, Germany
关键词
POLAR SCATTERING PROBE; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHIPS-HALO; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SURFACE-ALBEDO; WATER-CONTENT; PARTICLES; PARAMETERIZATION; MULTIPLICATION;
D O I
10.5194/acp-23-7611-2023
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Low-level (cloud tops below 2 km) mixed-phase clouds are important in amplifying warming in the Arctic region through positive feedback in cloud fraction, water content and phase. In order to understand the cloud feedbacks in the Arctic region, good knowledge of the vertical distribution of the cloud water content, particle size and phase is required. Here we investigate the vertical extent of the cloud-phase and ice-phase optical properties in six case studies measured in the European Arctic during the ACLOUD campaign. Late spring- and summertime stratiform clouds were sampled in situ over pack ice, marginal sea ice zone and open-ocean surface, with cloud top temperatures varying between -15 and 1.5 degrees C. The results show that, although the liquid phase dominates the upper parts of the clouds, the ice phase was frequently observed in the lower parts down to cloud top temperatures as warm as 3.8 degrees C. In the studied vertical cloud profiles, the maximum of average liquid phase microphysical properties, droplet number concentration, effective radius and liquid water content, varied between 23 and 152 cm 3, 19 and 26 mu m, 0.09 and 0.63 gm(-3), respectively. The maximum of average ice-phase microphysical properties varied between 0.1 and 57 L-1 for the ice number concentration, 40 and 70 mu m for the effective radius, and 0.005 and 0.08 gm 3 for the ice water content. The elevated ice crystal number concentrations and ice water paths observed for clouds, with cloud top temperatures between 3.8 and 8.7 degrees C can be likely attributed to secondary ice production through rime splintering. Low asymmetry parameters between 0.69 and 0.76 were measured for the mixed-phase ice crystals with a mean value of 0.72. The effect of the ice-phase optical properties on the radiative transfer calculations was investigated for the four cloud cases potentially affected by secondary ice production. Generally the choice of ice-phase optical properties only has a minor effect on the cloud transmissivity and albedo, except in a case where the ice phase dominated the upper cloud layer extinction. In this case, cloud albedo at solar wavelengths was increased by 10% when the ice phase was given its measured optical properties instead of treating it as liquid phase. The presented results highlight the importance of accurate vertical information on cloud phase for radiative transfer and provide a suitable data set for testing microphysical parameterizations in models.
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页码:7611 / 7633
页数:23
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