Secondary ice production during the break-up of freezing water drops on impact with ice particles
Secondary ice production during the break-up of freezing water drops on impact with ice particles
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DOI:
10.5194/acp-2021-557
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发表时间:
2021-07
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
R. James;V. Phillips;P. Connolly
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作者:
R. James;V. Phillips;P. Connolly
Abstract. We experimentally investigated collisions of supercooled water drops (∼ 5 mm in diameter) with ice particles of a similar size placed on a glass slide at temperatures T ≥ −12 °C. Our results showed that secondary drops were generated during both the spreading and retraction phase of the supercooled water drop impact. The secondary drops generated during the spreading phase were emitted too fast to quantify. However, quantification of the secondary drops generated during the retraction phase with diameters > 0.1 mm showed that 5–10 secondary drops formed per collision, with approximately 30 % of the secondary drops freezing over a temperature range of −4 °C ≤ T ≤ −12 °C. Our investigation provides the first dedicated laboratory study of collisions of supercooled water drops with ice particles as a secondary ice production mechanism. Our results suggest that this secondary ice production mechanism may be significant for ice formation in atmospheric clouds containing large supercooled drops and ice particles.