Contact: Ann Fridlind, Greg McFarquhar David Mitchell
The mission of the ASR Ice Processes (IcePro) Focus Group is to better characterize the ice physical properties represented in climate models and the processes that depend on them. IcePro is based on establishing a strong linkage between the observations used to characterize ice particle properties and the models with a variety of scales that are needed to investigate how cloud microphysical and radiative properties change with environmental conditions. IcePro focuses not only on quantifying the mean and statistical distributions of ice properties (determined from in situ data) and their linkages to process rates, but also on establishing the uncertainties in ice properties derived from ground truth in situ data and the consequences for associated process rates, parameterizations and model results.
IcePro Focus Group
