Model emulation to understand the joint effects of ice-nucleating particles and secondary ice production on deep convective anvil cirrus

Ice crystal formation in the mixed-phase region of deep convective clouds can affect the properties of climatically important convectively generated anvil clouds. Small ice crystals in the mixed-phase cloud region can be formed by heterogeneous ice nucleation by ice-nucleating particles (INPs) and s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Atmospheric chemistry and physics 2021-12, Vol.21 (23), p.17315-17343
Hauptverfasser: Hawker, Rachel E, Miltenberger, Annette K, Johnson, Jill S, Wilkinson, Jonathan M, Hill, Adrian A, Shipway, Ben J, Field, Paul R, Murray, Benjamin J, Carslaw, Ken S
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Zusammenfassung:Ice crystal formation in the mixed-phase region of deep convective clouds can affect the properties of climatically important convectively generated anvil clouds. Small ice crystals in the mixed-phase cloud region can be formed by heterogeneous ice nucleation by ice-nucleating particles (INPs) and secondary ice production (SIP) by, for example, the Hallett-Mossop process. We quantify the effects of INP number concentration, the temperature dependence of the INP number concentration at mixed-phase temperatures, and the Hallett-Mossop splinter production efficiency on the anvil of an idealised deep convective cloud using a Latin hypercube sampling method, which allows optimal coverage of a multidimensional parameter space, and statistical emulation, which allows us to identify interdependencies between the three uncertain inputs.
ISSN:1680-7324
1680-7316
1680-7324
DOI:10.5194/acp-21-17315-2021