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Current Analyses & Related Studies
- Construct parcel and cloud-scale trajectories
- - overlay aircraft data X-Z cross section of cloud (ref center)
- - aircraft track != parcel trajectory
- Nucleation & growth of ice crystals
- evidence of deposition nucleation?
- ice nucleation in down-draft evaporation areas?
- crystal carry-over from upwind clouds
- Ice nuclei characteristics
- concentration, vertical profiles, [IN] = f(T, SS, CN?, CCN?, ..)
- Numerical model simulations
- Lab experiments at cirrus temperatures (CSU)
- CFD ice crystals (+nuclei) mass spectrometer (CSU & NOAA)