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    Um, Junshik; McFarquhar, Greg M; Stith, Jeffrey L; Jung, Chang Hoon; Lee, Seoung Soo; Lee, Ji Yi; Shin, Younghwan; Lee, Yun Gon; Yang, Yiseok Isaac; Yum, Seong Soo; Kim, Byung-Gon; Cha, Joo Wan; Ko, A-Reum

    Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 11/2018, Letnik: 18, Številka: 23
    Journal Article

    During the 2012 Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) experiment the National Science Foundation/National Center for Atmospheric Research Gulfstream V (GV) aircraft sampled the upper anvils of two storms that developed in eastern Colorado on 6 June 2012. A cloud particle imager (CPI) mounted on the GV aircraft recorded images of ice crystals at altitudes of 12.0 to 12.4 km and temperatures (T) from -61 to -55 .sup.∘ C. A total of 22 393 CPI crystal images were analyzed, all with maximum dimension (Dmax⁡)433 µm and with an average D.sub.max⁡ of 80.7±45.4 µm. The occurrence of well-defined pristine crystals (e.g., columns and plates) was less than 0.04 % by number. Single frozen droplets and frozen droplet aggregates (FDAs) were the dominant habits with fractions of 73.0 % (by number) and 46.3 % (by projected area), respectively. The relative frequency of occurrence of single frozen droplets and FDAs depended on temperature and position within the anvil cloud.