Sensitivity of liquid clouds to homogenous freezing parameterizations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1599-1605

  Herbert, Ross J ^a   Murray, Benjamin J ^a   Dobbie, Steven J ^a   Koop, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cloud glaciation; cloud ice; droplet freezing; homogeneous nucleation; ice nucleation; mixed phase clouds

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FREEZING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; NUCLEATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RESEARCH LABORATORIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLOUD GLACIATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ICE NUCLEATION; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; RADIATIVE PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES;

ICE;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; FREEZING; HOMOGENEITY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUCLEATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925877307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062729     Document Type: Article

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