Refreeze experiments with water droplets containing different types of ice nuclei interpreted by classical nucleation theory

Homogeneous nucleation of ice in supercooled water droplets is a stochastic process. In its classical description, the growth of the ice phase requires the emergence of a critical embryo from random fluctuations of water molecules between the water bulk and ice-like clusters, which is associated wit...

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Main Authors: L. Kaufmann, C. Marcolli, B. Luo, T. Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-03-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/3525/2017/acp-17-3525-2017.pdf