Characteristics of ice nucleating particles in and around California winter storms

Levin, Ezra; Demott, Paul; Suski, Kaitlyn J.; Boose, Yvonne; Hill, Thomas C.; Mccluskey, Christina S.; Schill, Gregory; Rocci, Katherine; Al-Mashat, Hashim; Kristensen, Louise J.; Cornwell, Gavin; Prather, Kimberly; Tomlinson, Jason M.; Mei, Fan; Hubbe, John M.; Pekour, Mikhail S.; Sullivan, Ryan C.; Leung, Lai-Yung; Kreidenweis, Sonia

doi:10.1029/2019JD030831

Characteristics of ice nucleating particles in and around California winter storms

Journal Article · Fri Nov 15 23:00:00 EST 2019 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030831· OSTI ID:1706701

Levin, Ezra ^[1]; Demott, Paul ^[1]; Suski, Kaitlyn J. ^[2]; Boose, Yvonne ^[3]; Hill, Thomas C. ^[1]; Mccluskey, Christina S. ^[4]; Schill, Gregory ^[5]; Rocci, Katherine ^[1]; Al-Mashat, Hashim ^[6]; Kristensen, Louise J. ^[7]; Cornwell, Gavin ^[7]; Prather, Kimberly ^[7]; ^[2]; ^[2]; Hubbe, John M. ^[2]; ^[2]; Sullivan, Ryan C. ^[8]; ^[2]; Kreidenweis, Sonia ^[1]

Colorado State University
BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
gInstitute for Atmosphere and Climate Science, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NOAA
Colleague from graduate school
University of California, San Diego
Carnegie Mellon University

A major component of California’s yearly precipitation comes from wintertime atmospheric river (AR) events which bring large amounts of moisture from the tropics up to the midlatitudes. Understanding these systems, specifically the effects of aerosol particles on precipitation associated with these storms, was a major focus of the 2015 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (ACAPEX), which was part of the wintertime CalWater 2015 campaign. The measurement campaign provided sampling platforms on four aircraft, including the ARM Aerial Facility G-1, as well as the NOAA Ronald H. Brown research vessel and at a ground station in Bodega Bay, CA. Measurements of ice nucleating particles (INPs) were made with the Colorado State University (CSU) Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber (CFDC) aboard the G-1, and aerosol filters were collected on the G-1, at the Bodega Bay site and on the Ronald H. Brown for post-processing via immersion freezing in the CSU Ice Spectrometer. Aerosol composition was measured aboard the G-1 with the Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS). Here we present INP concentrations and aerosol chemical compositions during the course of the aircraft campaign. During the AR event we found that marine aerosol was the dominant aerosol type and that marine INPs were dominant at cloud activation temperatures, which is in stark contrast to the dominance of dust INPs during the AR events in the CalWater 2011 campaign.

Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1706701

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-147575

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 124

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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