Abstract
Abstract The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of the entrainment of aerosol from above the inversion on the microphysical structure and radiative properties of boundary layer clouds. For that purpose, the Los Alamos National Laboratory sea ice model was implemented into the research and real-time versions of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System at Colorado State University. A series of cloud-resolving simulations have been performed for a mixed-phase Arctic boundary layer cloud using a new microphysical module that considers the explicit nucleation of cloud droplets. Different aerosol profiles based on observations were used for initialization. When more polluted initial ice-forming nuclei (IFN) profiles are assumed, the liquid water fraction of the cloud decreases while the total condensate path, the residence time of the ice particles, and the downwelling infrared radiation monotonically increase. Results suggest that increasing the aerosol concentrations above the boundary layer may increase sea ice melting rates when mixed-phase clouds are present.
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