The Production of Clouds Containing Supercooled Water Droplets or Ice Crystals Under Laboratory Conditions
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- 1 April 1948
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Vol. 29 (4) , 175-182
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477-29.4.175
Abstract
The basic laboratory experiment in which a supercooled cloud may be seeded and converted to ice crystals is described in considerable detail. Such information is given as type and preparation of the cold chamber, light sources which are effective for different purposes, methods to follow in forming supercooled clouds, and procedures to follow in seeding them. The transition temperature at which ice crystals form spontaneously is given as − 39°C ± 0.1°C as the result of a recent study. A simple replica technique for preserving the exact structure of the crystals in plastic is described.Keywords
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