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Quantifying the impact of dust on heterogeneous ice generation in midlevel supercooled stratiform clouds
2012
Geophysical Research Letters
1] Dust aerosols have been regarded as effective ice nuclei (IN), but large uncertainties regarding their efficiencies remain. Here, four years of collocated CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements are used to quantify the impact of dust on heterogeneous ice generation in midlevel supercooled stratiform clouds (MSSCs) over the 'dust belt'. The results show that the dusty MSSCs have an up to 20% higher mixed-phase cloud occurrence, up to 8 dBZ higher mean maximum Z e (Z e _max), and up to 11.5 g/m 2
doi:10.1029/2012gl052831
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