Aerosol Influence on Mixed-Phase and Ice Clouds: Laboratory, Field, Remote-Sensing and Modeling Studies
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 5891
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ice nucleation; bioaerosol; dust; cloud; UAV
Interests: ice nucleation; aerosol science; climate change; CFD
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Initiation of primary ice particles through various modes of ice nucleation and precipitation from ice containing clouds has been poorly understood. The observations of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles that govern the heterogeneous nucleation of ice are limited. As a result, there is a lack of appropriate theoretical descriptions of ice particle formation, which is also very difficult to be represented adequately in cloud and climate models.
This important problem has been investigated through combination of multiple approaches, and the session aims to invite contributors to discuss this growing body of literature. Topics include laboratory studies of ice nucleation of various aerosols, new developments of formulations and parameterizations for ice formation, in-situ and remote sensing observations of ice containing clouds, simulations of ice and mixed-phase clouds, aerosol-cloud interaction and their implications towards cloud radiative effects based on cloud-scale, regional and global models. Studies that combine observational and modeling efforts are also welcome.Dr. Naruki Hiranuma
Dr. Gourihar Kulkarni
Dr. Minghui Diao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ice nucleation
- freezing
- cloud
- ice and mixed-phase clouds
- secondary ice production
- aerosol-cloud-climate interaction
- hydrometeor
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