Understanding cirrus ice crystal number variability for different heterogeneous ice nucleation spectra

Sullivan, Sylvia C.; Morales Betancourt, Ricardo; Barahona, Donifan; Nenes, Athanasios

doi:10.5194/acp-16-2611-2016

Title: Understanding cirrus ice crystal number variability for different heterogeneous ice nucleation spectra

Journal Article · Thu Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2611-2016· OSTI ID:1240194

Sullivan, Sylvia C.;

; Barahona, Donifan; Nenes, Athanasios

Along with minimizing parameter uncertainty, understanding the cause of temporal and spatial variability of the nucleated ice crystal number, N_i, is key to improving the representation of cirrus clouds in climate models. To this end, sensitivities of N_i to input variables like aerosol number and diameter provide valuable information about nucleation regime and efficiency for a given model formulation. Here we use the adjoint model of the adjoint of a cirrus formation parameterization (Barahona and Nenes, 2009b) to understand N_i variability for various ice-nucleating particle (INP) spectra. Inputs are generated with the Community Atmosphere Model version 5, and simulations are done with a theoretically derived spectrum, an empirical lab-based spectrum and two field-based empirical spectra that differ in the nucleation threshold for black carbon particles and in the active site density for dust. The magnitude and sign of N_i sensitivity to insoluble aerosol number can be directly linked to nucleation regime and efficiency of various INP. The lab-based spectrum calculates much higher INP efficiencies than field-based ones, which reveals a disparity in aerosol surface properties. In conclusion, N_i sensitivity to temperature tends to be low, due to the compensating effects of temperature on INP spectrum parameters; this low temperature sensitivity regime has been experimentally reported before but never deconstructed as done here.

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Research Organization:: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

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Journal Information:: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online), Journal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online) Vol. 16 Journal Issue: 4; ISSN 1680-7324

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