@mikarantane@AriJLaaksonen@meteorologit See Heymsfield et al. (2011) "Formation and spread of aircraft-induced holes in clouds." Science (2011): 77-81. for the description of the mechanism. There was an altostratus cloud at about 3.5 km where a passing aircraft induced formation of ice particles
@am_sundstrom The dust can be seen from the ground as well. Here is the ceilometer observations from Kumpula (https://t.co/GIjvIVMOjU). It is interesting to compare 31.3-1.4 and 9.4-10.4 events
Congratulations to @TaruOlsson for the great job defending the thesis. Many thanks to @EloquentScience for stimulating and maintaining a very interesting discussion. @Dr_Pettersen your pre-examination of the thesis is highly appreciated.
@LeonSimons8@nephologue@AtmosFede @diegoaliaga2 @Atmosfera_UMSA@INAR_fin I think Tim’s point is, if there is an abundance of aerosols not all CCN will become cloud droplets, anyway. Adding more CCN (by fire for example) may not change anything. Whether it is true or not, depends on the background aerosol concentration, etc
@LeonSimons8@nephologue@AtmosFede @diegoaliaga2 @Atmosfera_UMSA@INAR_fin I agree with Tim that in this case the cloud was initiated by heat. But speaking more generally, to form a cloud we need moisture, process of cooling air (needed for supersaturation development) and aerosols
@LeonSimons8@nephologue@AtmosFede @diegoaliaga2 @Atmosfera_UMSA@INAR_fin I agree with Tim, the cloud was initiated by heat. But, some of smoke aerosols took part in the cloud droplets formation. Supersaturation development is a balance between cooling rate and condensation sink, which depends on CCN spectrum
@Cyclogenesis_au @DopplerChase @70_dbz @ATMS_Illinois @mgroverwx@armnewsteam BTW, here is what you can do by combining Parsivel and MRR: https://t.co/2MuNmc0ydK
@nephologue @ProfGrantPetty Just include formation of cryptically sized embryo into consideration and one can argue that at some point less energy will be needed
After avoiding COVID for 2 years, I tested positive just 9 hours before my flight to @EradSwitzerland . I will be following the conference online, thank you Alexis and Urs for the hybrid meeting