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; Glacial geology
; Glaciers
; Optical radar
; Satellite observatories
; Space applications
; Antarctica
; Arctic
; Cloud microphysics
; Ice nucleation
; McMurdo
; Ross islands
; Ice
; CALIPSO
; cloud microphysics
; cloud radiative forcing
; CloudSat
; ice sheet
; lidar
; nucleation
; orographic effect
; seasonal variation
; SIR
; Alaska
; Antarctica
; Arctic
; Barrow
; East Antarctica
; Greenland
; Greenland Ice Sheet
; McMurdo Station
; Ross Ice Shelf
; Ross Island
; Summit
; United States
; West Antarctica
英文摘要:
Spaceborne radar and lidar observations from the CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites are used to compare seasonal variations in the microphysical and radiative properties of clouds over Ross Island, Antarctica, with two contrasting Arctic atmospheric observatories located in Barrow, Alaska, and Summit, Greenland. At Ross Island, downstream from recurrent intrusions of marine air over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and eastern Ross Ice Shelf, clouds exhibit a tendency toward the greatest geometrical thickness and coldest temperatures in summer, the largest average ice water content, IWC, at low altitude during summer and autumn, the most abundant IWC at cold mixed-phase temperatures (-40°C
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Scott R.C.,Lubin D.. Unique manifestations of mixed-phase cloud microphysics over Ross Island and the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica[J]. Geophysical Research Letters,2016-01-01,43(6).