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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-862
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-862
22 May 2023
 | 22 May 2023

Examination of varying mixed-phase stratocumulus clouds in terms of their properties, ice processes and aerosol-cloud interactions between polar and midlatitude cases: An attempt to propose a microphysical factor to explain the variation

Seoung Soo Lee, Chang-Hoon Jung, Young Jun Yoon, Junshik Um, Youtong Zheng, Jianping Guo, Manguttathil G. Manoj, and Sang-Keun Song

Abstract. This study examines the ratio of ice crystal number concentration (ICNC) to cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC), which is ICNC/CDNC, as a microphysical factor that induces differences in cloud development, its interactions with aerosols and impacts of ice processes on them among cases of mixed-phase clouds. This examination is performed using a large-eddy simulation (LES) framework and one of efforts toward a more general understanding of mechanisms controlling those development and impacts in mixed-phase clouds. For the examination, this study compares a case of polar mixed-phase clouds to that of midlatitude mixed-phase clouds with weak precipitation. It is found that ICNC/CDNC plays a critical role in making differences in cloud development with respect to the relative proportion of liquid and ice mass between the cases by affecting in-cloud latent-heat processes. Note that this proportion has an important implication for cloud radiative properties and thus climate. It is also found that ICNC/CDNC plays a critical role in making differences in clouds and their interactions with aerosols and impacts of ice processes on them between the cases by affecting in-cloud latent-heat processes. Findings of this study suggest that ICNC/CDNC can be a simplified general factor that contributes to a more general understanding of mixed-phase clouds and roles of ice processes and aerosols in them and thus, to the development of more general parameterizations of those clouds and roles.

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Seoung Soo Lee, Chang-Hoon Jung, Young Jun Yoon, Junshik Um, Youtong Zheng, Jianping Guo, Manguttathil G. Manoj, and Sang-Keun Song

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  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-862', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Jul 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Seoung Soo Lee, 08 Oct 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-862', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Seoung Soo Lee, 08 Oct 2023

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-862', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Jul 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Seoung Soo Lee, 08 Oct 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-862', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Seoung Soo Lee, 08 Oct 2023
Seoung Soo Lee, Chang-Hoon Jung, Young Jun Yoon, Junshik Um, Youtong Zheng, Jianping Guo, Manguttathil G. Manoj, and Sang-Keun Song
Seoung Soo Lee, Chang-Hoon Jung, Young Jun Yoon, Junshik Um, Youtong Zheng, Jianping Guo, Manguttathil G. Manoj, and Sang-Keun Song

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This study is motivated by the fact that there are no general factors that represent the overall properties of mixed-phase clouds. The absence of these factors contributes to the high uncertainty in the prediction of climate change. Hence, this study finds a general factor that explains differences in the properties of different mixed-phase clouds, using a modeling tool. This factor is useful to develop a general way of using climate models to better predict climate change.