| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 99, 2019
Central Asian DUst Conference (CADUC 2019)
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| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | Impacts of atmospheric dust | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199904003 | |
| Published online | 18 June 2019 | |
Lidar/radar approach to quantify the dust impact on ice nucleation in mid and high level clouds
1
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
2
Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
* e-mail: albert@tropos.de
We present the first attempt of a closure experiment regarding the relationship between ice nucleating particle concentration (INPC) and ice crystal number concentration (ICNC), solely based on active remote sensing. The approach combines aerosol and cloud observations with polarization lidar, Doppler lidar, and cloud radar. Several field campaigns were conducted on the island of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean from 2015-2018 to study heterogeneous ice formation in altocumulus and cirrus layers embedded in Saharan dust. A case study observed on 10 April 2017 is discussed in this contribution.
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