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Studying clouds and precipitation with a cloud radar and a snowflake camera

Principal Investigator: Heike Kalesse-Los

Research Plan ID: RS2022-661

Status: completed

Research Areas: Atmospheric Science; Snow Science

Period: 2022 – 2024

Items: 0 (0 publications, 0 datasets, 0 documents)

Description

We plan to enhance the instrumentation suite of the ongoing Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program at RMBL by a 94 GHz scanning cloud radar and a novel video in situ snowfall camera for the period Sep 2022 ? June 2023. Our goal is to study riming (the adherence of water droplets when ice particles fall through a supercooled liquid layer in a cloud) and secondary ice production (SIP) processes that enhance the number of ice particles during snowfall formation in complex terrain.