The Significance and Measurement of Ice Nucleating Particles (INPs) in the Atmosphere
Abstract—The paper outlines the significance of ice nucleating particles (INPs) in the atmosphere and collaborative research undertaken and proposed at Leeds University, UK and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Understanding the role of INPs in cloud formation in the troposphere is an essential feature of atmospheric modelling, but is not well researched or understood. It is a branch of atmospheric research that is gaining increasing interest and research funding worldwide. Heterogeneous ice crystal formation in clouds can happen when cloud droplets containing INPs act as surfaces for ice crystal generation and growth. INPs impact cloud properties such as lifetime and whiteness and in turn affect climate. INPs include mineral
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It is based around a Stirling cryocooler which cools a hydrophobic surface supporting the microlitre droplets. Droplets of microlitre volumes of water from the sampler are cooled down at a controlled rate and their freezing temperatures recorded. This allows determination of the efficiency with which immersed particles nucleate ice. The advantage of using relatively large droplet volumes is that the surface area per droplet is vastly larger than alternative experiments that focus on single aerosol particles or cloud-sized droplets. Droplet freezing experiments tend to have multiple particles suspended in individual water droplets. This increases the probability of observing the effect of less common, but important, high temperature INPs and therefore allows the quantification of their ice nucleation efficiency. The freezing of the droplets is monitored using a digital camera. The set-up is illustrated in Fig. 2 while Fig. 3 shows the progressive freezing of micolitre droplets as the temperature is
Will Stone Criminal Justice 3 10/23/17 Richard Kuklinski- The Iceman Richard Kuklinski, or the Iceman, arrested for murder on the year of 1986. He had been killing for over 30 years as a hitman for the mafia, and estimates that he had killed over 100 people. With cold calculation, he took the lives of anyone who he deemed wronged him or failed to pay back the mafia. Having a loveless and abusive childhood, he was set up for failure by his parents, and that made him the man he ended up as.
Water is constantly moving and changing through a process called the water cycle. The sun heats bodies of water on earth causing evaporation. After the air currents carry the water vapor into the air, it condenses and forms clouds. When cloud particles grow and collide they form precipitation; this
These results a somewhat inaccurate due to the fact that when the solutions were actually freezing is difficult to tell. Some solutions froze slowly and showed a plateau, while others
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The initiation of a Snowball Earth, involves a cooling mechanism in which an increase in the Earth’s coverage of snow and ice occurs. As mentioned previously, an increase in ice and snow coverage would result in an increase in the reflected fraction of solar radiation known as albedo. Increase in albedo causes a positive feedback for cooling.. That means, if enough snow and ice accumulates, farther cooling would result accompanied with larger areas being covered with more and more ice, and so on. The equatorial distribution of continents assists the positive feedback by allowing ice to accumulate in the regions closer to the equator, where solar radiation is direct (Hyde et al, 2000).
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Leila Fransis Noah Nejad Period 4 October 27th, 2015 Dry Ice in a Balloon Scientific Concepts :- Sublimation- The sublimation is when the dry ice lets out the gas and the gas made the balloon blow up and keeps blowing air into it.
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