Laboratory Growth of Low Temperature Ice Crystals Below -70 C
Abstract
A static diffusion chamber has been used to grow ice crystals at temperatures between -70 C and -85 C under controlled conditions of temperature, pressure, and ice supersaturation. Growth conditions for Type 1 polar stratospheric cloud and tropical cirrus particles have been simulated. Linear, projected area, and volume growth rates are presented. Ice crystals grown under simulated Martian atmospheric conditions are also presented.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFM.A41J0267B
- Keywords:
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- 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry;
- 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction;
- 0343 Planetary atmospheres (5210;
- 5405;
- 5704)