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Vortrag

Homogeneous Ice Formation in Supercooled Water Clouds

Dienstag, 11. Juli 2017, 15:00-16:00
KIT Campus Nord, IMK
Gebäude 435, Raum 2.05

It is important to know the phase and physical properties of aerosol and cloud particles at the top of high tropospheric clouds – anvils and the stratiform cirrus that originate from them – in order to better estimate their effects on energy balance, atmospheric moisture budget and regional circulation patterns. This talk revisits the formation of pristine ice crystals from homogeneous freezing of a population of cloud droplets - arguably the most basic liquid water-to-ice phase transition path in tropospheric clouds - by means of a theoretical analysis. Characteristic differences of the phase transition in different freezing-growth regimes will be illustrated by means of parcel simulations. Ramifications of these findings for the dynamical vs aerosol control of ice nucleation in cold cloud outflow regions are outlined.

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Reihe Karlsruher Meteorologisches Kolloquium
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