1358: Marine Boundary-Layer Cloud Physics in ICON (MBL-ICON)

Principal investigator: Anna Possner

Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 7/2023 to 6/2024
Report 7/2024 to 6/2025
Report 7/2025 to 6/2026

Publications

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2026-479, Schnelke, M., Ahlgrimm, M., and Possner, A.: Opposing entrainment effects of cloud droplet sedimentation during the pre-breakup stage of the stratocumulus to cumulus transition, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-479, 2026.
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-6217, Juliano, T. W., Tornow, F., Fridlind, A. M., Ackerman, A. S., Elsaesser, G. S., Geerts, B., Lackner, C. P., Painemal, D., Silber, I., Ovchinnikov, M., Svensson, G., Tjernström, M., Wu, P., Baró Pérez, A., Bogenschutz, P., Chechin, D., Chandrakar, K. K., Chylik, J., Debolskiy, A., Fadeev, R., Gupta, A., Ickes, L., Karalis, M., Köhler, M., Kosović, B., Kuma, P., Li, W., Mortikov, E., Morrison, H., Neggers, R. A. J., Possner, A., Raatikainen, T., Romakkaniemi, S., Schnierstein, N., Shima, S., Silin, N., Tolstykh, M., Xue, L., Zhang, M., and Zheng, X.: The Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment model-observation intercomparison project (COMBLE-MIP), Part I: Model specification, observational constraints, and preliminary findings, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6217, 2026.
• Pfannkuch, K., Ahlgrimm, M., Scheck, L., Schnelke, M., and Possner, A.: Reducing Radiation Biases in the Northeast Pacific Stratocumulus Deck: A New EIS-Moisture-Decoupling-Based Diagnostic to Constrain Parameterized Convection in ICON, Monthly Weather Review, in review
• DOI: 10.1029/2022JD038251, Ramadoss, V., Pfannkuch, K., Protat, A., Huang, Y., Siems, S., & Possner, A. (2024). An evaluation of cloud‐precipitation structures in mixed‐phase stratocumuli over the Southern Ocean in kilometer‐scale ICON simulations during CAPRICORN. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2022JD038251.
• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi8594, Feingold G. et al. [inkl. A. Possner] (2024): Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening, Sci. Adv., doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi8594.
• DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-13751-2024, Sauerland F. , N. Souverijns, A. Possner, H. Wex, P. Van Overmeiren, A. Mangold, K. Van Weverberg, N. van Lipzig (2024): Ice-nucleating particle concentration impacts cloud properties over Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, in COSMO-CLM2, Atm. Chem. and Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-24-13751-2024.