Do detailed simulations with size-resolved microphysics reproduce basic features of observed cirrus ice size distributions?
Ann M Fridlind1, Rachel Atlas2, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven3, Andrew S Ackerman4, David H Rind1, Jerry Y Harrington5, Greg M McFarquhar6, Junshik Um7, Robert Jackson8 and Paul Lawson9, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (5)Penn State University, University Park, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (8)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Sciences, Laramie, WY, United States, (9)SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States