L. Levkov et al., IMPACT OF PRIMARY ICE NUCLEATION PARAMETERIZATIONS ON THE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CIRRUS, Atmospheric research, 38(1-4), 1995, pp. 147-159
Different ice nucleation algorithms are implemented in a cloud microph
ysical scheme and numerical simulations of clouds are performed using
a three-dimensional mesoscale model. The predicted ice crystal fields
are found to be sensitive to the different modes of calculation of the
number of deposition/condensation freezing nuclei and contact freezin
g nuclei. Also a time and supercooling dependence of this sensitivity
is established. The general features of the cirrus clouds observed by
the research aircraft Falcon during the 1989 ICE (International Cirrus
Experiment) mission ICE212 are compared to those of the cirrus clouds
generated by the model. The cloud top height, the cloud ice content a
nd the ice number concentrations seem to be reproduced well.