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SID-3 Liquid and Ice Phase Particle Size Distributions measured during ACLOUD

Järvinen, Emma ORCID iD icon 1; Schnaiter, M. ORCID iD icon 1
1 Aerosolforschung (IMKAAF), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

This data set contains particle size distributions of spherical and aspherical cloud particles between 5 and 45 microns with a 10-second time resolution calculated from the Small Ice Detector Mark 3 (SID-3). The SID-3 detects individual cloud particles passing a 532 nm laser beam using two nested trigger detectors. The trigger signal is recorded as a histogram with a maximum rate of 11 kHz that can be used to derive particle size distributions by using the procedure described in Vochezer et al. (2016), doi:10.5194/amt-9-159-2016. For a sub-set of triggered particles a two-dimensional (2-D) scattering pattern is recorded that can be analysed for particle sphericity by a specifically developed image analysis software. Occasionally, coincidence sampling in the camera field of view causes optical distortions of the 2-D scattering patterns of liquid droplets and, consequently, a misclassification of such scattering patterns to be aspherical by the classification software. For the subsequent identification and re-classification of coincidence scattering patterns a machine learning (ML) algorithm was developed.
From the numbers of observed spherical and aspherical 2-D scattering patterns the fractions of spherical and aspherical particles are derived. ... mehr


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Aerosolforschung (IMKAAF)
Publikationstyp Forschungsdaten
Publikationsdatum 04.07.2023
Erstellungsdatum 29.06.2023 - 29.06.2023
Identifikator DOI: 10.35097/1602
KITopen-ID: 1000159945
HGF-Programm 12.11.26 (POF IV, LK 01) Aerosol-Cloud-Climate-Interaction
Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 29.06.2023
Schlagwörter Arctic, mixed-phase, clouds, ice crystals, small ice
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The data is in a NetCDF format. The file contains the following variables:
time_sec_af_midn: time as seconds after midnight
T: temperature in degree Celsius
altitude: flight altitude
bin_midpoints: bin midpoint diameters in µm - droplets
bin_ice_midpoints: bin midpoint diameters in µm - ice
bin_endpoints: bin endpoint diameters in µm - droplets
bin_ice_endpoints: bin endpoint diameters in µm - ice
Ntot_drop: Total concentration in particles per cubic centimeter – droplets
dNtot_drop_upper: Clopper-Pearson confidence upper limit – droplets
dNtot_drop_lower: Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit – droplets
Ntot_ice: Total concentration in particles per cubic centimeter – ice
dNtot_ice_upper: Clopper-Pearson confidence upper limit – ice
dNtot_ice_lower: Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit – ice
PSD_all: Particle size distribution – ALL particles
PSD_ice: Particle size distribution – ice
PSD_ice_upper: Clopper-Pearson confidence upper limit - Particle size distribution – ice
PSD_ice_lower: Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit - Particle size distribution – ice
PSD_drop: Particle size distribution – Droplets
PSD_drop_upper: Clopper-Pearson confidence upper limit - Particle size distribution – Droplets
PSD_drop_lower: Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit - Particle size distribution – Droplets
NDropImag: Number of droplet images used to construct particle size distribution
NIceImag: Number of ice images used to construct particle size distribution
d_eff_ice: Effective diameter – ice
d_eff_drop: Effective diameter – droplets
IWC: Ice water content assuming a sphere
LWC: Liquid water content
LWC_upper: Liquid water content upper limit – sphere. Calculated using Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit.
LWC_lower: Liquid water content lower limit – sphere. Calculated using Clopper-Pearson confidence lower limit.
b_ext_drop: Extinction coefficient - droplets
b_ext_ice: Extinction coefficient - ice

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