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Production of ice crystals by riming in slightly supercooled cumulus

✍ Scribed by B. J. Mason

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1975
Tongue
English
Weight
351 KB
Volume
101
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

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.

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Production of ice crystals and electric
Production of ice crystals and electric charge by splintering of freezing droplets in thunderclouds
✍ K. A. Browning; B. J. Mason 📂 Article 📅 1963 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 384 KB

## Abstract According to the Mason‐Latham mechanism the main thunderstorm charge is generated by the impaction, freezing and splintering of supercooled droplets on pellets of soft hail. The rates of charge and splinter production are now calculated using the Ludlam‐Browning model of the thunderstor