Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields

T Bartels-Rausch, V Bergeron, JHE Cartwright… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012‏ - APS
From the frontiers of research on ice dynamics in its broadest sense, this review surveys the
structures of ice, the patterns or morphologies it may assume, and the physical and chemical …

Production of ice in tropospheric clouds: A review

W Cantrell, A Heymsfield - Bulletin of the American …, 2005‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Ice in the troposphere affects a variety of processes, including the formation of precipitation,
and cloud lifetime, albedo, dynamics, and electrification. A lack of understanding of the ways …

Optical properties of aerosols and clouds: The software package OPAC

M Hess, P Koepke, I Schult - Bulletin of the American …, 1998‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The software package OPAC (Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds) is described. It
easily provides optical properties in the solar and terrestrial spectral range of atmospheric …

Parameterization of the radiative properties of cirrus clouds

Q Fu, KN Liou - Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 1993‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A new approach for parameterization of the broadband solar and infrared radiative
properties of ice clouds has been developed. This parameterization scheme integrates in a …

Overview of Arctic cloud and radiation characteristics

JA Curry, JL Schramm, WB Rossow… - Journal of …, 1996‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
To provide a background for ARM's activities at the North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic
Ocean sites, an overview is given of our current state of knowledge of Arctic cloud and …

Independent measurement of extinction and backscatter profiles in cirrus clouds by using a combined Raman elastic-backscatter lidar

A Ansmann, U Wandinger, M Riebesell, C Weitkamp… - Applied …, 1992‏ - opg.optica.org
Height profiles of the extinction and the backscatter coefficients in cirrus clouds are
determined independently from elastic-and inelastic-(Raman) backscatter signals. An …

The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection

F Hourdin, I Musat, S Bony, P Braconnot, F Codron… - Climate Dynamics, 2006‏ - Springer
The LMDZ4 general circulation model is the atmospheric component of the IPSL–CM4
coupled model which has been used to perform climate change simulations for the 4th IPCC …

The relevance of the microphysical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds to climate and climatic feedback

GL Stephens, SC Tsay… - Journal of …, 1990‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper examines the effects of the relationship between cirrus cloud ice water content
and cloud temperature on climate change. A simple mechanistic climate model is used to …

[HTML][HTML] An accurate parameterization of the solar radiative properties of cirrus clouds for climate models

Q Fu - Journal of climate, 1996‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
An accurate parameterization of the solar radiative properties of cirrus clouds is developed
based on improved light scattering calculations. Here 28 ice crystal size distributions from in …

Single scattering properties of atmospheric ice crystals

A Macke, J Mueller, E Raschke - Journal of Atmospheric …, 1996‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Simulations of scattering and polarization properties for randomly oriented polyhedral ice
crystals are presented based on the geometric optics and the far-field diffraction …