Ice production and growth in mixed-phase clouds give a complicated picture of the radiative and mass characteristics due to the heterogeneity of particle shapes and sizes. Collocated airborne lidar and microphysics datasets from a recent winter storm field study are used to evaluate the effect of ice and liquid hydrometeors, observed in situ, on the multiple-wavelength backscatter coefficient values measured by the NASA Cloud Physics Lidar over the course of three winter deployments in the Midwest and Northeast United States.
Finlon et al. (Thu,) studied this question.