Publications related to Atmospheric icing

The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide

Heterogeneous ice nucleation is a ubiquitous process in the natural and built environment. Deposition ice nucleation, i.e. heterogeneous ice nucleation that - according to the traditional view - occurs in a subsaturated water vapor environment and in the a ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Snowfall microphysics: a dual-frequency and Doppler spectral radar perspective

Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

Snowfall is an essential component of the hydrological cycle, as it is involved in most precipitation on Earth, either directly as snow falling to the ground or indirectly as rain melted from snow. At the same time, the ice phase of clouds and precipitatio ...

EPFL2023

Highly Active Ice‐Nucleating Particles at the Summer North Pole

Julia Schmale

The amount of ice versus supercooled water in clouds is important for their radiative properties and role in climate feedbacks. Hence, knowledge of the concentration of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) is needed. Generally, the concentrations of INPs are fo ...

2022

Secondary ice production in summer clouds over the Antarctic coast: an underappreciated process in atmospheric models

Alexis Berne, Athanasios Nenes, Etienne Gabriel Henri Vignon, Georgia Sotiropoulou

The correct representation of Antarctic clouds in atmospheric models is crucial for accurate projections of the future Antarctic climate. This is particularly true for summer clouds which play a critical role in the surface melting of the ice shelves in th ...

European Geosciences Union2021

Thermal origin of quasilocalized excitations in glasses

Matthieu Wyart, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Marko Popovic, Wencheng Ji

Key aspects of glasses are controlled by the presence of excitations in which a group of particles can rearrange. Surprisingly, recent observations indicate that their density is dramatically reduced and their size decreases as the temperature of the super ...

2020

CDW and Similarity of the Mott Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Cuprates with the Gas-to-Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Water

Davide Innocenti

New advances in X-ray diffraction, extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), and X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) using synchrotron radiation have now provided compelling evidence for a short-range charge density wave phase (CDW) called ...

Springer2015

Polarimetric radar and in situ observations of riming and snowfall microphysics during CLACE 2014

Alexis Berne, Jacopo Grazioli, Luca Panziera

This study investigates the microphysics of winter alpine snowfall occurring in mixed-phase clouds in an inner-Alpine valley during January and February 2014. The available observations include high-resolution polarimetric radar and in situ measurements of ...

Copernicus Publications2015

Fast Crystallization of the Phase Change Compound GeTe by Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Giacomo Francesco Leonardo Miceli, Federico Giberti

Phase change materials are of great interest as active layers in rewritable optical disks and novel electronic nonvolatile memories. These applications rest on a fast and reversible transformation between the amorphous and crystalline phases upon heating, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Mapping frequencies of icing on structures in Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Thomas Grünewald, Walter Steinkogler

Icing of structures is a problem for wind energy production in cold regions and makes careful planning of new projects essential. This study presents and evaluates a method to create a map showing the frequency of meteorological icing in Switzerland. Icing ...

2012