TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamical Response of an Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud to Ice Precipitation and Downwelling Longwave Radiation From an Upper-Level Cloud
AU - Chen, Yao Sheng
AU - Harrington, Jerry Y.
AU - Verlinde, Johannes
AU - Zhang, Fuqing
AU - Oue, Mariko
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Atmospheric Science Program Atmospheric System Research, an Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research program, under Grants DE-FG02-05ER64058 and DE-SC0013953. The authors appreciate the comments on this work provided by George Young and Hugh Morrison. The specific observed sounding, which our initial profiles were loosely based on, is the NWS sounding taken around 2013.05.02 2301UTZ at PABR site. The data file can be downloaded from the ARM data archive (http://www.archive.arm.gov, datastream nsa01snwsupabrwX1.b1).
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Atmospheric Science Program Atmospheric System Research, an Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research program, under Grants DE‐FG02‐05ER64058 and DE‐SC0013953. The authors appreciate the comments on this work provided by George Young and Hugh Morrison. The specific observed sounding, which our initial profiles were loosely based on, is the NWS sounding taken around 2013.05.02 2301UTZ at PABR site. The data file can be downloaded from the ARM data archive ( http://www.archive.arm.gov , datastream nsa01snwsupabrwX1.b1).
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PY - 2020/1/27
Y1 - 2020/1/27
N2 - Multilayered, mixed-phase clouds are frequently present in the Arctic atmosphere. The upper-level clouds can impact the lower-level clouds through seeding with ice precipitation and reducing their cloud top radiative cooling rate. The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System is used to study the response of the lower-level clouds to the perturbations introduced by the upper-level clouds through the aforementioned mechanisms. The results show that both ice-seeding and downwelling longwave radiation from the upper-level clouds contribute to the dissipation of the lower-level clouds. With the reduction of liquid in the lower-level cloud, differential heating between the region directly perturbed by the upper-level cloud and the adjacent region drives a circulation in and below the lower-level cloud and dissipates the liquid in the lower-level cloud beyond the directly perturbed region. The broad updraft formed in the perturbed region as the liquid layer in the low-level cloud dissipates can lead to the re-formation of a liquid cloud layer in the center of the gap if the perturbations weaken, the results of which is to reduce the magnitude of the differential heating and limit the significance of this response. However, even with this re-formation, the warm air in the gap lowers the cloud top height and reduces the liquid water path of nearby clouds and potentially changes their radiative effects.
AB - Multilayered, mixed-phase clouds are frequently present in the Arctic atmosphere. The upper-level clouds can impact the lower-level clouds through seeding with ice precipitation and reducing their cloud top radiative cooling rate. The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System is used to study the response of the lower-level clouds to the perturbations introduced by the upper-level clouds through the aforementioned mechanisms. The results show that both ice-seeding and downwelling longwave radiation from the upper-level clouds contribute to the dissipation of the lower-level clouds. With the reduction of liquid in the lower-level cloud, differential heating between the region directly perturbed by the upper-level cloud and the adjacent region drives a circulation in and below the lower-level cloud and dissipates the liquid in the lower-level cloud beyond the directly perturbed region. The broad updraft formed in the perturbed region as the liquid layer in the low-level cloud dissipates can lead to the re-formation of a liquid cloud layer in the center of the gap if the perturbations weaken, the results of which is to reduce the magnitude of the differential heating and limit the significance of this response. However, even with this re-formation, the warm air in the gap lowers the cloud top height and reduces the liquid water path of nearby clouds and potentially changes their radiative effects.
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U2 - 10.1029/2019JD031089
DO - 10.1029/2019JD031089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079426086
SN - 2169-897X
VL - 125
JO - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
IS - 2
M1 - e2019JD031089
ER -