A 1D Model for Nucleation of Ice from Aerosol Particles: An Application to a Mixed-Phase Arctic Stratus Cloud Layer

A 1D Model for Nucleation of Ice from Aerosol Particles:

An Application to a Mixed-Phase Arctic Stratus Cloud Layer

Daniel A. Knopf1*, Israel Silber2, Nicole Riemer3, Ann M. Fridlind4, Andrew S. Ackerman4

1School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

2Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

3Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

4NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA

Corresponding author: Daniel Knopf ([e-mail])

This repository contains all model output data in netCDF format to reproduce simulation results and corresponding figures given in above listed publication.

File name description:

Type of parameterization: INN, INAS, ABIFM

INP treatment, diagnostic or prognostic: diag, prog

Aerosol size distribution:

05mu: monodisperse 0.5 μm diameter

15mu: monodisperse 0.5 μm diameter

polydisperse:  polydisperse particle size distribution

Model initialization and thermodynamic data: model_data

Aerosol/INP data: aerosol_data, polydisperse_data

Change in ice nucleation efficiency: 10X, 100X