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Kneifel, Stefan and Moisseev, Dmitri (2020). Long-Term Statistics of Riming in Nonconvective Clouds Derived from Ground-Based Doppler Cloud Radar Observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 77 (10). S. 3495 - 3509. BOSTON: AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC. ISSN 1520-0469

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Abstract

Riming is an efficient process of converting liquid cloud water into ice and plays an important role in the formation of precipitation in cold clouds. Due to the rapid increase in ice particle mass, riming enhances the particle's terminal velocity, which can be detected by ground-based vertically pointing cloud radars if the effect of vertical air motions can be sufficiently mitigated. In our study, we first revisit a previously published approach to relate the radar mean Doppler velocity (MDV) to rime mass fraction (FR) using a large ground-based in situ dataset. This relation is then applied to multiyear datasets of cloud radar observations collected at four European sites covering polluted central European, clean maritime, and Arctic climatic conditions. We find that riming occurs in 1%-8% of the nonconvective ice containing clouds with median FR between 0.5 and 0.6. Both the frequency of riming and FR reveal relatively small variations for different seasons. In contrast to previous studies, which suggested enhanced riming for clean environments, our statistics indicate the opposite; however, the differences between the locations are overall small. We find a very strong relation between the frequency of riming and temperature. While riming is rare at temperatures lower than -12 degrees C, it strongly increases toward 0 degrees C. Previous studies found a very similar temperature dependence for the amount and droplet size of supercooled liquid water, which might be closely connected to the riming signature found in this study. In contrast to riming frequency, we find almost no temperature dependence for FR.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kneifel, Stefan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Moisseev, Dmitri UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-316007
DOI:	10.1175/JAS-D-20-0007.1
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Atmos. Sci.
Volume:	77
Number:	10
Page Range:	S. 3495 - 3509
Date:	2020
Publisher:	AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
Place of Publication:	BOSTON
ISSN:	1520-0469
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SNOWFALL MICROPHYSICS; WINTER STORMS; ICE PARTICLES; FALL SPEED; AGGREGATION; GROWTH; PARAMETERIZATION Multiple languages Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31600