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Production of ice crystals by riming in slightly supercooled cumulus
Author(s) -
Mason B. J.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710142921
Subject(s) - ice crystals , supercooling , pellets , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , materials science , geology , physics , composite material
It is shown that ice‐crystal concentrations of order 10/litre may be produced in clouds limited to the −8°C level if growing pellets of soft hail release splinters at the rates recently observed in laboratory experiments by Hallett and Mossop (1974) and provided that these splinters can continue to grow in at least three successive thermals over a period of about 1 1/2 hours.