Atmospheric impact of quasiliquid layers on ice surfaces

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Apr 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3207807v&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 7, CiteID L07807

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere: Composition And Chemistry, Cryosphere: Ice Cores (4932), Cryosphere: Snow (1827, 1863), Cryosphere: Ice (1863)

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We present a fully thermodynamically constrained model to calculate the thickness of the quasiliquid layer on ice surfaces and apply this model to atmospherically relevant situations to calculate the quasiliquid thickness and volume for ice aerosols and snow pack. These volumes are comparable to the liquid volumes present in a representative liquid-droplet cloud. The pure water calculations represent conservative lower bounds to the volume possible from more complex solutions. Incorporation of solution chemistry into the model demonstrates both the effect played by impurities when studying this phenomenon and how the formation of the quasiliquid layer concentrates impurities on the ice surface.

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