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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017668
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- Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-02ER63337, DE-FG02-07ER64378, DE-FG02-09ER64770, DE-SC0001279]
- U.S. DOE, Office of Science, BER, Environmental Sciences Division
- Environment Canada
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Cloud and aerosol data acquired by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Convair-580 aircraft in, above, and below single-layer arctic stratocumulus cloud during the Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) in April 2008 were used to test three aerosol indirect effects hypothesized to act in mixed-phase clouds: the riming indirect effect, the glaciation indirect effect, and the thermodynamic indirect effect. The data showed a correlation of R = 0.78 between liquid drop number concentration, N-liq inside cloud and ambient aerosol number concentration N-PCASP below cloud. This, combined with increasing liquid water content LWC with height above cloud base and the nearly constant vertical profile of N-liq, suggested that liquid drops nucleated from aerosol at cloud base. No evidence of a riming indirect effect was observed, but a strong correlation of R = 0.69 between ice crystal number concentration N-i and N-PCASP above cloud was noted. Increases in ice nuclei (IN) concentration with N-PCASP above cloud for 2 flight dates combined with the subadiabatic LWC profiles suggest possible mixing of IN from cloud top consistent with the glaciation indirect effect. The lower N-ice and lower effective radius r(el) for the more polluted ISDAC cases compared to data collected in cleaner single-layer stratocumulus conditions during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment is consistent with the operation of the thermodynamic indirect effect. However, more data in a wider variety of meteorological and surface conditions, with greater variations in aerosol forcing, are required to identify the dominant aerosol forcing mechanisms in mixed-phase arctic clouds.
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