Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Sensitivity of the CAM to Small Ice Crystals As Measured by the FSSP David L. Mitchell Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada Philip Rasch NCAR, Boulder, Colorado Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Small mode enhancement with decreasing T for tropical anvil cirrus; Opposite for mid-latitude cirrus. Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Albedo and emissivity differences between mid-latitude and tropical anvil cirrus clouds having the same ice water path (IWP). Also, note the contribution of the small crystal mode to the albedo and emissivity (dashed curves are for the large mode only). Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar A = fraction of the original concentration to total concentration of ice particles. From Field et al. 2003, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 20, Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Corrected for Ice Particle Shattering Effects Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Tropical ML PSD CAM RESULTS: Tropical vs. mid-latitude size distributions SW cloud forcing LW cloud forcing Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Tropical ML SWCF differences Tropical ML LWCF differences Tropical minus mid-latitude PSD simulations: Cloud forcing Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar PSD median mass flux fall velocities Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Impact of ice particle fall velocities IWP zonal means for in-cloud conditions, tropical & mid-latitude PSD schemes % difference in high-level cloud coverage, tropical ML PSD scheme Tropical M L PSD Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Heating rates and tropical cold bias Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar dS w dX l dX i = A 1 w A 2 A 3 dt dt dt S w = supersaturation with respect to water w = updraft dX l /dt = condensation rate of liquid phase dX i /dt = condensation rate of ice phase A terms = f(T,P,supersaturation ratio) Ficks 1 st Law if Diffusion for ice crystal growth m v = A D v t x Cloud Parcel Model Formulation Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Nucleation clue: Small mode crystals are quasi-spherical CPI Images from SPEC Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Ice Crystal Nucleation Assumptions Small Mode: Inside-out contact nucleation (Shaw and Durrant 2005, J. Phys. Chem. B, Letters). Cloud droplets evaporate via Bergeron-Findeisen process and some percent freeze as ice nuclei within contacts the droplet interface. We assume this occurs for D < 2 m about. Large Mode: Based on Huffman (1973); N IN = C S K. C modified to give typical N as measured by the 2DC probe (i.e l -1 ). Frozen droplet Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Criteria for testing ice crystal nucleation process: Small crystal mode, mid-latitude ice clouds: Mean length: 27 3 m (for cirrus) Typical N: 500 5000 l -1 IWC: 10 40% of total Large crystal mode, mid-latitude ice clouds: Mean length: > 100 m, up to 1-2 mm in frontal clouds Typical N: l -1 IWC: 60-90% of total Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Different growth rates produce bimodal spectra, but small mode IWC >> large mode IWC. Simultaneous nucleation. Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Propose 2-stage ice crystal nucleation process to satisfy observations of ice cloud bimodal size spectra Large mode crystals form from ice nuclei and grow at expense of cloud droplets Vapor pressure drops below water saturation as droplet surface area decreases. Fraction of smallest evaporating droplets freeze (2%) to form small crystal mode. + Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar stage nucleation process in an updraft Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar stage nucleation process with negligible vertical motion. Initial droplet diameter = 10 m, LWC = 0.10 g m -3. Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar stage process for droplet diameter = 5 m, LWC = 0.10 g m -3 Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Particle Size, Water Path, and Photon Tunneling in Water and Ice Clouds ARM STM Albuquerque Mar Conclusions Parcel Model 1.Predicted size spectra in ice clouds were bimodal due to different crystal shapes and their corresponding growth rates. 2.To approximate the observed properties of ice cloud bimodal size spectra, a 2-stage process of ice crystal production appears necessary. 3.This 2-stage process may account for the stable observed properties of the small crystal mode and observed ice supersaturations (Korolev and Isaac 2005). 4.This 2-stage process indicates that the small crystal mode in ice clouds should be affected by changes in aerosol concentration similar to liquid water clouds. Since the small mode may potentially dominate cloud radiative properties and heating rates for polluted atmospheres, aerosol particles may play a critical role in determining the radiative properties of mid-latitude cirrus clouds. 5.An aerosol-cirrus IOP should relate aerosol concentrations to the small crystal mode of the cirrus size distribution.