Aircraft icing in visual meterological conditions below low stratus clouds

There are many reports about icing slightly below stratus clouds in visual meteorological conditions (VMC), which obviously occurs very often but not only in polar regions and over the sea. Calculations of the ice shape at the leading edge of aircraft wings and the main rotor blades of helicopters by computers of GMGO (German Military Geophysical Office) and DLR (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- and Raumfahrt) show, that this specific ice accretion, which often accumulates to severe icing, depends mostly on two meteorological parameters: liquid water content (LWC) and air temperature, but does not depend on the size of the drizzle droplets in the case of helicopters.