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Title: Estimating Surface Attachment Kinetic and Growth Transition Influences on Vapor-Grown Ice Crystals
There are few measurements of the vapor growth of small ice crystals at temperatures below -30°C. Presented here are mass-growth measurements of heterogeneously and homogeneously frozen ice particles grown within an electrodynamic levitation diffusion chamber at temperatures between -44 and -30°C and supersaturations ( s i ) between 3 and 29%. These growth data are analyzed with two methods devised to estimate the deposition coefficient ( α) without the direct use of s i . Measurements of s i are typically uncertain, which has called past estimates of α into question. We find that the deposition coefficient ranges from 0.002 to unity and is scattered with temperature, as shown in prior measurements. The data collectively also show a relationship between α and s i , with α rising (falling) with increasing s i for homogeneously (heterogeneously) frozen ice. Analysis of the normalized mass growth rates reveals that heterogeneously-frozen crystals grow near the maximum rate at low s i , but show increasingly inhibited (low α) growth at high s i . Additionally, 7 of the 17 homogeneously frozen crystals cannot be modeled with faceted growth theory or constant α. These cases require the growth mode to transition from efficient to inefficient in time, leading to a large decline in α. Such transitions may be, in part, responsible for the inconsistency in prior measurements of α.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1824243
NSF-PAR ID:
10164099
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
ISSN:
0022-4928
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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