Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Thomas Kuhn
- Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Veronika Wolf
- Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Description
Particle size distributions (PSDs) for cirrus clouds are important for both climate models and many remote sensing retrieval methods. It is necessary to parametrize PSDs for different cloud types.
Arctic cirrus particle size distributions (PSD) are presented depending on the cloud origin, either in situ or liquid. The data set used originate from balloon-borne measurements above Kiruna (north of Sweden, 67.8N, 20.4E) during winter. The observed PSDs are represented by gamma functions. The gamma coefficients exhibit large differences with regard to cloud origin. Thus, two new PSD parametrizations for Arctic cirrus of in situ and liquid origin are presented. These functions for Arctic cirrus confirm established parametrizations for continental cirrus sorted by two particle size modes, but differ from others depending only on temperature. We suppose that the agreement between the parametrizations of the geographically different cirrus is because in situ and liquid origin cirrus also distinguish by particle size modes. Since cloud sorting by their origin is based on physical processes which are i
Language
English
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Contributor(s)
Martina Krämer
- Research Centre Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate Research 7: Stratosphere (IEK-7)
Time period(s) investigated
2012-04-04 – 2018-02-28
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Norrbotten County, Kiruna Municipality
Research area
Natural Sciences, Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere
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Kuhn, T., & Heymsfield, A. J. (2016). In Situ Balloon-Borne Ice Particle Imaging in High-Latitude Cirrus. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 173(9), 3065–3084. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-016-1324-x
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-016-1324-x
URN:
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-7503
Wolf, V., Kuhn, T., Milz, M., Völger, P., Krämer, M., & Rolf, C. (2018). Arctic ice clouds over northern Sweden : microphysical properties studied with the Balloon-borne Ice Cloud particle Imager B-ICI. Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, 18(23), 17371–17386. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17371-2018
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URN:
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-72316
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17371-2018
Wolf, V., Kuhn, T., & Krämer, M. (2019). On the Dependence of Cirrus Parametrizations on the Cloud Origin. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(21), 12565–12571. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083841
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083841
URN:
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-73538
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The data set consists primarily of measured particle size distributions (PSD).
Then, coefficients of the fitted gamma functions are reported.
Also, PSD data calculated from the new parametrizations at various temperatures are provided for typical conditions.
These are the data from article Wolf, V., T. Kuhn, and M. Krämer (2019), On the dependence of cirrus parametrizations on the cloud origin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(21), 12,565- 12,571, doi: 10.1029/2019GL083841.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Thomas Kuhn
- Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Veronika Wolf
- Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Time period(s) investigated
2012-04-04 – 2018-02-28