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CLOUDS Cornelius Schiller Cornelius Schiller Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany [email protected]

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CLOUDS

Cornelius SchillerCornelius SchillerForschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

[email protected]

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OutlineIntroduction• Role of clouds in the climate system• Cloud types• Cloud life cycle

Cloud formation and precipitation• Cooling• Cooling• Warm Clouds• Cold clouds• Precipitation

Special aspects from recent studies• IWC of cirrus clouds• Super-Supersaturation• Contrails

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Literature

• Seinfeld, J. H. and S. H. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Wiley Interscience, 1997

• Pruppacher, H. R., and J. D. Klett, Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978

• Lynch, D. K., K. Sassen, D. O‘C. Starr, G. Stephens • Lynch, D. K., K. Sassen, D. O‘C. Starr, G. Stephens (eds.), Cirrus, Oxford Univ. Press., 2002

• IPCC, Climate Change 2007 – The Physical Science Basis, Cambridge Univ. Press., 2007

• Peter, T. et al., When dry air is too humid, Science, 2005• + many individual publications• + Meteorology standard textbooks

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Role of clouds in the climate system

• Clouds are a major factor in the Earth‘s radiation budget

• Clouds are a key step in the hydrological cycle• Clouds are a key step in the hydrological cycle

• Clouds provide a medium for (heterogeneous) chemical reactions

• Clouds affect significantly vertical transport and redistribution of species in the atmosphere

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More CCN→ more but smaller drops (cloud albedo/Twomey effect)→ higher reflectivity & longer lifetime→ less sun on Earth’s surface→ cooling

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Aerosols – Clouds – Climate

considered in IPCC RF

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Hydrological cycle

total water on Earth: 1.4·109 km3

oceans 97.4 %polar ice 1.9 %ground water 0.5 %soil 0.01 %soil 0.01 %biosphere 0.003 %atmosphere 0.001 %

atmospheric H2O 4% - 1 ppmv

total atmospheric H2O 25 mmannual precipitation 800 mmH2O exchange rate 10-11 days

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Chemical reactions in clouds: washout

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Chemical reactions in clouds: surface reactions

stratospheric ozone

source gas reservoirs reactiveCFC HCl, ClONO2 Cl2, Cl, ClO, (ClO)2

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Cloud impact on vertical transport

Corti et al.

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Cloud types

-80°C

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Low Clouds Stratus (St)

Cumulus (Cu)Cumulus Congestus

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Medium-high Clouds

Altostratus (As)

Altocumulus (Ac)

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Cirrostratus (Cs)

High Clouds

Subvisible cirrus (SVC/UTTC)

Cirrocumulus (Cc)Cirrus (Ci)

+ contrails

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anvil: source of cirrus

Cumulonimbus (Cb)

anvil: source of cirrus

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Polar Stratospheric Clouds (mother-of-pearl; nacrea ous)Noctilucent Clouds

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Liu & Zipser, TRMM cloud occurence > 14 km

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Precipitation staircase

Prerequisites for cloud formation:• water• low T• supersaturation• Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)

or Ice Nuclei (IN)

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Cloud formation and precipitation

• Cooling• Warm Clouds• Cold clouds• Precipitation• Precipitation

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Cooling

• Isobaric cooling• Adiabatic cooling

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Frontal cloud formation

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Convective cloud formation

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Orographic cloud formation

also up to cirrus / PSC altitudes

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lifting condensation level

latent heat release ∆Hv by condensationmoist adiabatic lapse rate:

< Γ

Adiabatic cooling

dry adiabatic lapse rate

or dT/dt = -Γ·w

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Cumulus formation

depends on H2O content and stability of atmosphere

1: stable atmosphere

2: unstable atmosphereupdraft stopped high upcumulus congestus

LCL

∆T causes updraft

{

1: stable atmosphereupdraft stopped earlycumulus humilis

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Stability in the atmosphere

unstable stablestrong T-gradient weak T-gradient or inversion

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Warm Clouds

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Equilibrium between phases:Clausius Clapeyron equation

vapour/water

∆Hv(T) specific heat (water evap.)Mw molecular weight supercooled water

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Equilibrium of water droplet vs flat surface

Kelvin equation

pw > p° → for equilibrium of droplet, air needs to be supersaturated

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Supersaturation of several 100% required in particle-free air →cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) required

Vapour pressure over an aqueous solution: Köhler eq uation

activation of particles to drops particles < critical size < drops

Higher critical supersaturationis needed for• less particle solubility(bad water uptake)

• smaller particles

curvature term solute effect

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Activation of aerosol particles to drops

Good CCN: large, high water soluble fraction, i.e. saltsBad CCN: small, high insoluble fraction, i.e. soot, dust or high organic fraction

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Aerosol Composition

Water soluble inorganicWater soluble organicInsoluble

McFiggins et al. (2006), ACP

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Cold (ice) clouds

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Supercooled water, mixed phase, ice clouds

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vapour/ice

∆Hs molar enthalpy for ice sublimation

Clausius Clapeyron equation

∆Hs molar enthalpy for ice sublimation

Integration ln pH2O = -A/T + C[Marti & Mauersberger, GRL 1993]

∆[H2O] = 1 ppmv ⇒ ∆Tfrost ≈ 1 K

water/ice

∆Hm enthalpy for melting

p = 40 hPa

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p-T phase diagram for water

metastable equilibriumsupercooled water/vapour T=0°C, p=6.1 hPa

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Bergeron-Findeisen process

T < 0°C, p sat,w > psat,isupercooled droplets cannot coexist in equilibrium with ice crystals

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Ice Nuclei (IN)

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Homogeneous / heterogeneous ice nucleation

determind by IN composition and supersaturation

bad IN: soluble solutions good IN: sootorganics mineral dust

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A hom. freez. of solution droplets D het. freez. of solution dropletsB deliquescence + hom. freez. E deposition nucl. on insoluble/anhydrous particleC hom/het freez. + secondary phase cryst. F contact freezing nucleation

(immersion freezing)

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Ice saturation at low T: Homogeneous nucleation

Koop et al., 2000 AIDA experiments

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Ice saturation at low T: Heterogeneous nucleation

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Supersaturation in the atmosphere

inside clouds outside clouds

Ovarlez et al.

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Precipitation

(some) drops need to grow to precipitable size

mechanisms:• water vapour condensation• droplet coalescence• droplet coalescence• ice processes

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Diffusional growth of drops

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Droplet coalescence

falling (large) drops collect smaller drops in fall path (Mt 25,29)

For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. taken from him.

Denn wer hat, dem wird gegeben, und er wird im Überfluss haben; wer aber nicht hat, dem wird auch noch weggenommen, was er hat.

Car à celui qui a, on donnera, et il aura encore davantage; mais à celui qui n'a pas, on ôtera même ce qu'il a.

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Ice processes

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Example: Microphysics in a Cb cloud

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Clouds 3Special aspects from recent studies

• IWC of cirrus clouds• Super-supersaturation (part 1, part 2 by TP)• Contrails and contrail cirrus

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Ice Water Content (IWC) of cirrus

Measurement: total water – gas phase water

T/K

> 5 aircraft campaignstropical cirrus midlatitude cirrus polar cirrus

Schiller et al., 2008

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Detection limits

1st methodtotal water –measured gas phase

2nd methodtotal water – saturation(from pT measurement)

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FISH/FLASH vs FSSP IWC

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Mean IWC and frequency distribution

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IWC and cooling / convection

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Utrathin tropical cirrus (UTTC)final step of dehydration of stratospheric air

Peter et al., 2002

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Stabilisation of UTTC

Vertical motion of a particle

Growth/evaporation of particles

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The High Supersaturation Puzzleal

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FLASH/OJSTER: supersaturation climatology

green: mid latitudesblue: high latitudesred/yellow: tropics

AircraftGeophysicaFalconLear Jet

Krämer et al., 2009

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Supersaturation: frequency distribution and T-depen dence

reprocessed data (28 flights)

• only few data > homogeneous f.t.• no data > water saturation• inside cloud RHi peaks at 100%• broader distribution at T < 205 K

clear sky

inside clouds

Krämer et al., 2009

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Saturation ratio with respect to ice:

partial pressure of water

vapor pressure of ice

S > 1 � ice particles grow

S= 1 � ice particles are in equilibrium with the gas phase

S < 1 � ice particles evaporate

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How does water vapor condense on ice particles?

Sedimentation

How is supersaturation maintained?

pvap(T ) = A e –B/T

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Sedimentation

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Steady-state S in an upwelling air parcel (w)

= 0

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Ice crystal number densities- vertical velocity w- frost point at which air starts- aerosol properties varied

Kärcher & Lohmann, 2002

Mean ice crystal radiiIce water content

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Growth time of ice particles

(up to 80% of equilibrium radius)

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Supersaturation and N ice

(persisitent) supersaturation consistent with low Nice

supersaturation puzzle → freezing suppression puzzle

inside clouds

FSSP measurements from 20 flights by S. Borrmann and M. deReus

homogen. freezing and low uz?

heterogen. freezing?

freezing supression by organics?

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Contrails / contrail cirrus

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RHi > 100%persistent contrails

Contrails and RHi

RHi < 100%lifetime of minutes

embedded in (sub-)visible cirrus?generating new cirrus?

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Krämer, CONCERT 2008

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Schumann, 2002

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Particles in a fresh contrail

During CONCERT large ice crystals (100µm) observed in short-lived contrail→ entrainment from surrounding cirrus

contrail