Mystery of ice multiplication in warm-based precipitating shallow cumulus clouds

Details Mystery of ice multiplication in warm-based precipitating shallow cumulus clouds Mystery of ice multiplication in warm-based precipitating shallow cumulus clouds

May 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3710802s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 10, CiteID L10802

Physics

Optics

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Optics, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906)

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High concentrations of ice crystals exceeding those of background ice nuclei have often been observed in warm-based precipitating shallow cumulus clouds. Laboratory experiments reveal that such ice multiplication can occur when large ice particles collide with cloud droplets (Hallett-Mossop mechanism). Further studies suggested that this mechanism is unable to account for the exceedingly high ice concentrations in those kinds of clouds. However, the results of our numerical simulations show that the ice multiplication phenomena can be explained by the Hallett-Mossop mechanism with the freezing of a narrow band of supercooled raindrops which act as rimers playing a crucial role.

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