Simulating Arctic Ice Clouds during Spring Using an Advanced Ice Cloud Microphysics in the WRF Model

Setigui A. Keita 1 Eric Girard 1 Jean-Christophe Raut 2, 1 Jacques Pelon 2 Jean-Pierre Blanchet 3, 1 Olivier Lemoine 1 Tatsuo Onishi 2
1 Centre ESCER
2 TROPO - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
3 SCTA - Département des sciences de la terre et de l'atmosphère [Montréal]
Abstract : Two Types of Ice Clouds (TICs) have been characterized in the Arctic during the polar night and early spring. TIC-1 are composed by non-precipitating small ice crystals of less than 30 µm in diameter. The second type, TIC-2, are characterized by a low concentration of large precipitating ice crystals (>30 µm). Here, we evaluate the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model performance both in space and time after implementing a parameterization based on a stochastic approach dedicated to the simulation of ice clouds in the Arctic. Well documented reference cases provided us in situ data from the spring of 2008 Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) campaign over Alaska. Simulations of the microphysical properties of the TIC-2 clouds on 15 and 25 April 2008 (polluted or acidic cases) and TIC-1 clouds on non-polluted cases are compared to DARDAR (raDAR/liDAR) satellite products. Our results show that the stochastic approach based on the classical nucleation theory, with the appropriate contact angle, is better than the original scheme in WRF model to represent TIC-1 and TIC-2 properties (ice crystal concentration and size) in response to the IN acidification.
Keywords : Arctic ice clouds cloud microphysics numerical modeling WRF classical nucleation theory ice nuclei acidification
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Setigui A. Keita, Eric Girard, Jean-Christophe Raut, Jacques Pelon, Jean-Pierre Blanchet, et al.. Simulating Arctic Ice Clouds during Spring Using an Advanced Ice Cloud Microphysics in the WRF Model. Atmosphere, MDPI 2019, 10 (8), art. 433 (29 p.). ⟨10.3390/atmos10080433⟩. ⟨insu-02202892⟩

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