Sensitivity of cirrus and mixed-phase clouds to the ice nuclei spectra in McRAS-AC: single column model simulations
| Autor: | Yogesh C. Sud, Donifan Barahona, R. Morales Betancourt, Dongmin Lee, Athanasios Nenes, Lazaros Oreopoulos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Atmospheric Science
Meteorology Nucleation cirrus cloud microphysics Atmospheric sciences mixing ratio observational method Physics::Geophysics lcsh:Chemistry sensitivity analysis satellite data Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Physics atmospheric general circulation model formation mechanism Ice crystals Cloud fraction Cloud physics GOES parameterization lcsh:QC1-999 lcsh:QD1-999 Liquid water content Ice nucleus ice crystal Climate model Cirrus Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics lcsh:Physics |
| Zdroj: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol 12, Iss 22, Pp 10679-10692 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 1680-7324 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/acp-12-10679-2012 |
| Popis: | The salient features of mixed-phase and ice clouds in a GCM cloud scheme are examined using the ice formation parameterizations of Liu and Penner (LP) and Barahona and Nenes (BN). The performance of LP and BN ice nucleation parameterizations were assessed in the GEOS-5 AGCM using the McRAS-AC cloud microphysics framework in single column mode. Four dimensional assimilated data from the intensive observation period of ARM TWP-ICE campaign was used to drive the fluxes and lateral forcing. Simulation experiments where established to test the impact of each parameterization in the resulting cloud fields. Three commonly used IN spectra were utilized in the BN parameterization to described the availability of IN for heterogeneous ice nucleation. The results show large similarities in the cirrus cloud regime between all the schemes tested, in which ice crystal concentrations were within a factor of 10 regardless of the parameterization used. In mixed-phase clouds there are some persistent differences in cloud particle number concentration and size, as well as in cloud fraction, ice water mixing ratio, and ice water path. Contact freezing in the simulated mixed-phase clouds contributed to transfer liquid to ice efficiently, so that on average, the clouds were fully glaciated at T~260 K, irrespective of the ice nucleation parameterization used. Comparison of simulated ice water path to available satellite derived observations were also performed, finding that all the schemes tested with the BN parameterization predicted average values of IWP within ±15% of the observations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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