An Analysis of Accreted Drop Sizes and Mass on Rimed Snow Crystals

Autor:	A. Waldvogel, Lukas Mosimann, Ernest Weingartner
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Crystal Atmospheric Science Meteorology Drop (liquid) Environmental science Visual rating Snow Atmospheric sciences Mass fraction Rimed snow Graupel Icing
Zdroj:	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 51:1548-1558
ISSN:	1520-0469 0022-4928
Popis:	A classification of the degree of riming of snow crystals is established, based on a visual rating and expressed on a scale ranging from 0 (unrimed) to 5 (graupel). For 84 individual snow crystals collected from six cases over three winters, the size distribution of the accreted cloud droplets is studied. Relationships between the degree of riming and quantitative parameters, namely, the total number and mass of accreted cloud droplets and especially the rimed mass fraction of a snow crystal, are presented. These new relationships may be a powerful tool to estimate the aforementioned parameters by rating only the degree of riming of a snow crystal.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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