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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 1973-1985Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-1973-2014
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- National Science Foundation
- US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- National Science Foundation [1104642]
- NSF [AGS-1010657]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1138116, 1104642, 1010657] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study examines the occurrence and morphology of frozen-drop aggregates in thunderstorm anvils from the United States Midwest and describes the environmental conditions where they are found. In situ airborne data collected in anvils using several particle imaging and sizing probes and bulk total water instrumentation during the 2012 Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry experiment are examined for the presence of frozen-drop aggregates. Chains of frozen drops have been only rarely reported before and are hypothesized to aggregate due to electrical forces in the clouds. They were identified in nine of the anvil cases examined to date, suggesting that they are common features in these Midwestern anvils. High concentrations of individual frozen droplets occurred on the tops and edges of one particular set of anvils, while regions closer to the center and bottom of these anvils exhibited fewer frozen drops and more frozen-drop aggregates. Bulk ice water content measurements across these anvils could only be explained by contributions from both small particles (frozen droplets) and large particles (large aggregates of frozen droplets). Dual Doppler radar analysis confirmed the presence of deep and strong (> 15ms(-1)) updrafts in the parent cloud of one of the anvils. These features contrast with previous anvil measurements in tropical/maritime anvils that evidently do not exhibit the same frequency of frozen-drop aggregates.
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