三江源地区秋季一次层积云飞机人工增雨催化试验的微物理响应
Microphysical responses as seen in a stratocumulus aircraft seeding experiment in autumn over the Sanjiangyun National Nature Reserve
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摘要: 利用三江源地区一次在层积云顶部进行的飞机锯齿形催化作业及回穿探测的全球卫星定位系统(GPS)轨迹和机载云粒子测量系统(PMS)资料,在确定作业前后有效对比区间、区分云粒子相态的基础上,通过分析作业前、后液态云粒子及冰晶浓度变化、云粒子谱的演变和过冷水含量比率的变化,研究了催化的微物理响应。结果表明,作业区液态云粒子中值直径集中在3.5—18.5 μm,直径21.5—45.5 μm的云粒子基本上为冰晶,粒径大于50 μm的粒子相态为冰相;锯齿形作业后约2—23 min,在其航线下风方36 km范围内,前向散射粒子谱探头(FSSP-100)和二维灰度云粒子探头(OAP-2D-GA2,简称2DC)所测云粒子浓度、直径变化均未超出作业前云区内的自然起伏,但在过冷水含量大于0.01 g/m3的高过冷水区,液态云粒子浓度明显降低,前向散射粒子谱探头量程内的冰晶粒子浓度明显升高,冰相含水量增大,过冷水含量比率的平均值由作业前的 (68.3±23.1)% 减小至(34.2±12.4)% 。在过冷水含量越高的区域,催化效应越明显,而在低过冷水区和仅受原点催化影响的航迹交叉点处均未观测到催化响应。Abstract: Making use of the Globe Positioning System (GPS) and the Particle Measuring System (PMS) observation data from a saw-shape artificial seeding and backward-forward probe experiment above stratocumulus over the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, microphysica1 responses are studied through analysis of the variation of total number concentration of liquid cloud particles and ice crystal, cloud particle spectrum and f1 (fraction of liquid water), which is based on distinguishing of cloud particle's phase state when the effective area for comparing has been defined between before and after the operation. The results show that the size of cloud particles in liquid phase are mostly in the median diameter range of 3.5-18.5 μm, with ice crystal in the range 21.5-45.5 μm and the particles greater than 50 μm being in ice phase in the experiment area. At the leeward of routine within the scope of 36 km about 2-23 min later, the variation of number concentration and diameter detected by FSSP and 2DC in the test region, is not out of the range of normal fluctuation. However, in the high supercooled water area (HSWA) with the supercooled liquid water content (SLWC) larger than 0.01 g/m3, the number concentration of cloud particles for liquid phase decreases obviously, and the density of ice crystal particles increases in the FSSP's range, which is the same as the variation tendency of the Ice Water Content (IWC), with the mean value of f1 reduced to (34.2±12.4)% from (68.3±23.1)%. The effects of seeding are remarkable in the high supercooled water area, but not obviously in the low supercooled water area and the routine cross points just influenced by the original seeding.