Ice Crystal Measurements with the New Particle Spectrometer NIXE-CAPSForschungszentrum Jülich, 2013 - 132 pages |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The new cloud spectrometer NIXECAPS | 22 |
NIXECAPS at the AIDA chamber and on board of the BAE146 | 55 |
Results and Discussion | 65 |
Summary and conclusions | 86 |
Bibliography | 117 |
Acknowledgements | 131 |
Common terms and phrases
A/D counts aerosol particles AIDA chamber AIDA clouds aircraft airspeed aspherical particles backscattered backscattered light Baumgardner calibration classified clouds observed COALESC natural clouds coexistence regime correction scheme cross polarized decrease defined degree of glaciation dependence depolarization detected detector diameter distribution droplet concentration droplets and ice evaluation evaporation Figure file first fraction of frozen freezing frequency histogram frozen cloud particles glaciation humidity regimes ice cloud ice crystal concentration ice crystals ice fraction ice nuclei ice particles influence Journal of Atmospheric Korolev laser laser beam LIDAR liquid and ice liquid droplets measurement period microphysical properties Mie theory mineral dust mixed—phase clouds NIXE—CAS nucleation number of particles Oceanic Technology particle number particle shape phase clouds Pruppacher and Klett range refractive index relative humidity sample volume scattering cross section SMPS spectralon Spectrometer spherical coordinate system spherical particles supersaturated temperature interval thesis total number concentration uncertainty water droplets WBF regime