Active Regions of Secondary Ice Production in a Modeled Tropical Mesoscale Convective System

<p>The animations of the modeled tropical mesoscale convective system (MCS). The red regions indicate the cloud regions with the secondary ice production rate dNice/dt &gt;10⁵ m^-3 s^-1. The numerical simulation of the MCS was performed with the help of the Environment and Climate Change Canada's (ECCC) Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model.</p> <p>For details see Korolev, A., Z. Qu, J. Milbrandt, I. Heckman, M. Cholette, M. Wolde, C. Nguyen, G. M. McFarquhar, P. Lawson, and A. M. Fridlind: High ice water content in tropical mesoscale convective systems (a conceptual model). Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2024.</p>