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Production of laboratory clouds
Author(s) -
Mossop S. C.
Publication year - 1984
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.49711046319
Subject(s) - boiler (water heating) , body orifice , environmental science , steam drum , cloud computing , nuclear engineering , petroleum engineering , waste management , meteorology , materials science , mechanics , superheated steam , mechanical engineering , engineering , computer science , physics , operating system
A cloud can be produced by injecting steam into a large plastic‐walled chamber. The liquid water content and drop size distribution of the cloud are found to depend chiefly on the power input to the steam boiler and the size of the boiler orifice respectively.