Data · dataset · 2026
High ice water content conditions associated with wintertime elevated convection in the midwest
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Aircraft flying through areas of high ice water content (HIWC) can experience engine damage and/or failure.
Description
HIWC is typically associated with convection and the microphysical properties of tropical oceanic and coastal convection are well documented as a result of several field campaigns in the past decade. HIWC appears to be less common in extratropical convection, but instances of HIWC-related aircraft issues have been recorded in extratropical weather, even during winter.
The present study documents the microphysical properties of HIWC between -25 degrees and 0 degrees C and the meteorological and thermodynamic conditions around that HIWC from five flights from the In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment (ICICLE) in the midwestern United States in February 2019. All five cases contained elevated convection above a strong low-level temperature inversion. Values for top-of-inversion mixing ratios and total column precipitable water were about 5 g kg(-1) and 20 mm, respectively, according to soundings near each case.
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A maximum ice water content of 2.1 g m(-3) was observed over a length scale of about 500 m, and ice particle size distributions had mean volume equivalent diameters around 1000 mu m. Supercooled drizzle droplets were also observed in the vicinity of the HIWC, raising questions about the possible role of secondary ice production via the freezing and shattering of supercooled large droplets in HIWC formation. The generalizability of these results is limited by the small number of cases, but they provide some of the first in situ observations of extratropical winter HIWC and highlight the need for continued research on these conditions.
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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