Bimodality and variability of particle size distributions in high Ice Water Content regions and their implications for microphysical models

Shichu Zhu1, Greg M McFarquhar2, Delphine Leroy3, Alexei Korolev4, Alfons Schwarzenboeck3, Wei Wu5 and J Walter Strapp6, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex, France, (4)Environment Canada Toronto, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Section, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (6)Met Analytics Inc., Aurora, ON, Canada