Session 8 Cirrus Clouds

Wednesday, 30 June 2010: 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Cascade Ballroom (DoubleTree by Hilton Portland)
Host: 13th Conference on Cloud Physics
Chairs:
David O'C. Starr, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Andrew J. Heymsfield, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Papers:
10:30 AM
8.1
Current Homogeneous Freezing Formulations Overestimate Ice Formation
O. Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and S. Benz, H. Saathoff, M. Schnaiter, and R. Wagner
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
8.2
Measurement of growth and density of dendrite crystals
John Hallett, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. W. Garner
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.1 MB)

8.3
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves within gravity-wave induced lenticular clouds

11:15 AM
8.3A
Understanding cirrus cloud behavior using observations from A-Train and geostationary satellite and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data
Elizabeth J. Dupont, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. G. Mace

11:30 AM
8.4
Microphysical Variability of Cirrus in Tropical Storm Outflow
Martin W. Gallagher, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and P. J. Connolly, K. N. Bower, T. W. Choularton, J. Crosier, M. J. Flynn, G. Allen, G. Vaughan, and J. Hacker
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
8.5
Results from SPartICus (Small Particles in Cirrus) project
R. Paul Lawson, SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO; and G. G. Mace, J. M. Comstock, E. Jensen, B. A. Baker, A. Chaturvedi, and Q. Mo
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
8.6
Impact of wind shear and radiatively-driven convection on tropical tropopause layer cirrus structure, microphysical properties, and evolution
Eric Jensen, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and J. M. Comstock and M. J. McGill
Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM
8.7
Representing the ice fall speed in climate models using measurements from recent field campaigns
David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Mishra, B. Baker, Q. Mo, and P. Lawson
Recorded Presentation

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