ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-12-12061-2012 Sensitivity studies of dust ice nuclei effect on cirrus clouds with the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5 Liu X. 1 Shi X. 1 2 Zhang K. 1 Jensen E. J. 3 Gettelman A. 4 Barahona D. 5 6 Nenes A. 7 8 Lawson P. 9 Atmospheric Science & Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA I. M. Systems Group, Rockville, MD, USA School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA SPEC Inc., Boulder, CO, USA 19 12 2012 12 24 12061 12079 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/12061/2012/acp-12-12061-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/12061/2012/acp-12-12061-2012.pdf

In this study the effect of dust aerosol on upper tropospheric cirrus clouds through heterogeneous ice nucleation is investigated in the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5) with two ice nucleation parameterizations. Both parameterizations consider homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation and the competition between the two mechanisms in cirrus clouds, but differ significantly in the number concentration of heterogeneous ice nuclei (IN) from dust. Heterogeneous nucleation on dust aerosol reduces the occurrence frequency of homogeneous nucleation and thus the ice crystal number concentration in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) cirrus clouds compared to simulations with pure homogeneous nucleation. Global and annual mean shortwave and longwave cloud forcing are reduced by up to 2.0 ± 0.1 W m<sup>−2</sup> (1&sigma; uncertainty) and 2.4 ± 0.1 W m<sup>−2</sup>, respectively due to the presence of dust IN, with the net cloud forcing change of −0.40 ± 0.20 W m<sup>−2</sup>. Comparison of model simulations with in situ aircraft data obtained in NH mid-latitudes suggests that homogeneous ice nucleation may play an important role in the ice nucleation at these regions with temperatures of 205–230 K. However, simulations overestimate observed ice crystal number concentrations in the tropical tropopause regions with temperatures of 190–205 K, and overestimate the frequency of occurrence of high ice crystal number concentration (> 200 L<sup>−1</sup>) and underestimate the frequency of low ice crystal number concentration (< 30 L<sup>−1</sup>) at NH mid-latitudes. These results highlight the importance of quantifying the number concentrations and properties of heterogeneous IN (including dust aerosol) in the upper troposphere from the global perspective.

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