Raman lidar-derived optical and microphysical properties of ice crystals within thin Arctic clouds during PARCS campaign

Autor: P. Chazette, J.-C. Raut
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 16, Pp 5847-5861 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1867-1381
1867-8548
DOI: 10.5194/amt-16-5847-2023
Popis: Cloud observations in the Arctic are still rare, which requires innovative observation techniques to assess ice crystal properties. We present an original approach using the Raman lidar measurements applied to a case study in northern Scandinavia. The vertical profiles of the optical properties, the effective radius of ice crystals and ice water content (IWC) in Arctic semi-transparent clouds were assessed using quantitative ground-based lidar measurements at 355 nm performed from 13 to 26 May 2016 in Hammerfest (north of Norway, 70∘39′48′′ N, 23∘41′00′′ E). The field campaign was part of the Pollution in the ARCtic System (PARCS) project of the French Arctic Initiative. The presence of low-level semi-transparent clouds was noted on 16 and 17 May. The cloud base was located just above the atmospheric boundary layer where the 0 ∘C isotherm reached around 800 m above the mean sea level (a.m.s.l.). To ensure the best penetration of the laser beam into the cloud, we selected case studies with cloud optical thickness (COT) lower than 2 and out of supercooled liquid pockets. Lidar-derived multiple scattering coefficients were found to be close to 1 and ice crystal depolarization around 10 %, suggesting that ice crystals were small and had a rather spherical shape. Using Mie computations, we determine effective radii between ∼7 and 25 µm in the clouds for ice water contents between 1 and 8 mg m−3, respectively. The uncertainties regarding the effective radii and ice water content are on average 2 µm and 0.65 mg m−3, respectively.
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