Global satellite observations suggest temperature dependencies of cloud top ice sizes and shapes are dominated by vapor growth processes

Bastiaan van Diedenhoven1, Andrew S Ackerman2, Ann M Fridlind2, Brian Cairns2 and Jérôme Riedi3, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France