Sentences with phrase «ice particle shapes»
Macke, A., P.N. Francis, G.M. McFarquhar, and S. Kinne, 1998: The role of ice particle shapes and size distributions in the single scattering properties of cirrus clouds.
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Matrosov S. Y., C. G. Schmitt, M. Maahn and G. de Boer (December 2017): Atmospheric Ice Particle Shape Estimates from Polarimetric Radar Measurements and In Situ Observations.
Not exact matches
To help get their technology into drug companies» hands more quickly, DeSimone and his colleagues have built a device that make different - shaped nanoparticles in bulk using molds that pop out these particles like so many ice cubes.
In addition, the team found that in clean skies, the heavier ice particles fall faster out of the anvil - shaped clouds, causing the clouds to dissipate.
The precise balance of these opposing effects depends on time of day, time of year, altitude, size of the water droplets and / or ice particles, latitude, current air temperature, and size and shape.
This may suggest that for a given optical thickness, the influence of particle shape on the radiative forcing caused by a cloud composed of small ice crystals can be negligible.