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A quantitative study on the growth law of ice crystals

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On the basis of analysis and study of the growth of ice crystals, the inadequacy and thus a necessity for improvement of the Kobayashi-Pruppacher model are discussed. Be experimenting with a new wedgeshaped chamber of ice thermal diffusion which provides a stable environment and a wide range of control, a great amount of quantitative data from three-dimensional size measurements have been obtained. A quantitative research method is established, yielding, for the first time, satisfactory quantitative results in the region of low ice supersaturation. These results show that the Kobayashi-Pruppacher inference is inadequate, and reveal new characteristics of ice-crystal growth in the Wulff growth region, the region of abrupt change of crystal froms and that of low ice supersaturation.

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  1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing

    Wang Angsheng

  2. Department of meteorology, University of Utah, U. S. A.

    N. Fukuta

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Wang, A., Fukuta, N. A quantitative study on the growth law of ice crystals. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 2, 45–53 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179736

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