Rain Resulting from Melting Ice Particles

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis J. Battan
Keyword(s):  
Ice Particles

scholarly journals Dynamics of the Ice-Crushing Process

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (118) ◽  
pp. 318-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. Jordaan ◽  
Garry W. Timco
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Load Cycle ◽  
Stored Energy ◽  
Indentation Process ◽  
Ice Particles ◽  
Mode Of Failure ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Crushed Ice

Abstract During fast indentation tests on ice sheets at constant rates, crushing is commonly observed at appropriate combinations of speed and aspect ratio. An analysis is made of this mode of failure, using as a basis a recently conducted test on an ice sheet under controlled conditions. The variation of load with time is given special attention, and cyclic variation of load is associated with periodic crushing (pulverization) events, followed by clearing of the crushed ice particles. An analysis of the clearing process is summarized in the paper, treating the crushed ice as a viscous material. A detailed analysis of the energy exchanges during the indentation process is given. Elastic variations of stored energy in the indenter and in the ice sheet are calculated; these are relatively minor. The dissipation of energy during a typical load cycle (3 mm movement during 0.05 s) is about 8 J. The energy required to create surfaces of the crushed ice particles is small (0.006 J), as is the work of crushing based on mechanical testing (0.09 J). It is concluded that the process of viscous extrusion of crushed ice is the main seat of energy dissipation, basically as a frictional process. A relationship for the mean thickness of the crushed ice layer is developed, based on energy-balance considerations.

Direct numerical simulation of sublimating ice particles

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 105953 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Reitzle ◽  
S. Ruberto ◽  
R. Stierle ◽  
J. Gross ◽  
T. Janzen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Direct Numerical Simulation ◽  
Ice Particles

New Empirical Formulation for the Sublimational Breakup of Graupel and Dendritic Snow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akash Deshmukh ◽  
Vaughan T. J. Phillips ◽  
Aaron Bansemer ◽  
Sachin Patade ◽  
Deepak Waman
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Atmospheric Model ◽  
Scaling Analysis ◽  
Quasi Equilibrium ◽  
Ice Particles ◽  
Ice Multiplication ◽  
Bin Microphysics ◽  
Ice Production ◽  
New Formulation

AbstractIce fragments are generated by sublimation of ice particles in subsaturated conditions in natural clouds. Conceivably, such sublimational breakup would be expected to cause ice multiplication in natural clouds. Any fragment that survives will grow to become ice precipitation that may sublimate and fragment further.As a first step towards assessing this overlooked process, a formulation is proposed for the number of ice fragments from sublimation of ice particles for an atmospheric model. This is done by amalgamating laboratory observations from previously published studies. The concept of a ‘sublimated mass activity spectrum’ for the breakup is applied to the dataset. The number of ice fragments is determined by the relative humidity over ice and the initial size of the parent ice particles. The new formulation applies to dendritic crystals and heavily rimed particles only.Finally, a thought experiment is performed for an idealized scenario of subsaturation with in-cloud descent. Scaling analysis yields an estimate of an ice enhancement ratio of about 5 (50) within a weak deep convective downdraft of about 2 m s-1, for an initial monodisperse population of dendritic snow (graupel) particles of 3 L-1 and 2 mm . During descent, there is a dynamic equilibrium between continual emission of fragments and their depletion by sublimation. A simplified bin microphysics parcel model exhibits this dynamical quasi-equilibrium, consistent with the thought experiment. The fragments have average lifetimes of around 90 and 240 seconds for dendrites and graupel respectively. Sublimational breakup is predicted to cause significant secondary ice production.

A laboratory and model investigation of secondary ice production during to supercooled drop collisions with ice surfaces 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Connolly ◽  
Rachel James ◽  
Vaughan Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Ice Formation ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
Ice Particles ◽  
Cold Room ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Rain Drops ◽  
Break Up ◽  
Ice Surfaces ◽  
Ice Production

<p>This work presents new laboratory data investigating collisions between supercooled drops and ice particles as a source of secondary ice particles in natural clouds. Furthermore we present numerical model simulations to put the laboratory measurements into context.</p><p>Secondary ice particles form during the breakup of freezing drops due to so-called “spherical freezing” (or Mode 1), where an ice shell forms around the freezing drop. This process has been studied and observed for drops in free-fall in laboratory experiments since the 1960s, and also more recently by Lauber et al. (2018) with a high-speed camera. Aircraft field measurements (Lawson et al. 2015) and lab data (Kolomeychuk et al. 1975) suggest that such a process is dependent on the size of drops, with larger drops being more effective at producing secondary ice.  Collision induced break-up of rain drops has been well studied with pioneering investigations in the mid-1980s, and numerous modelling studies showing that it is responsible for observed trimodal rain drop size distributions in the atmosphere, which can be well approximated by an exponential distribution.</p><p> </p><p>In mixed-phase clouds we know that rain-drops can collide with more massive ice particles. This, depending on the type of collision, may lead to the break-up of the supercooled drop (e.g. as hinted by Latham and Warwicker, 1980), potentially stimulating secondary ice formation (Phillips et al. 2018 - non-spherical, Mode 2).  There is a dearth of laboratory data investigating this mechanism.  This mechanism is the focus of the presentation.</p><p>Here we present the results of recent experiments where we make use of the University of Manchester (UoM) cold room facility. The UoM cold room facility consists of 3 stacked cold rooms that can be cooled to temperatures below -55 degC. A new facility has been built to study secondary ice production via Mode 2 fragmentation. We generate supercooled drops at the top of the cold rooms and allow them to interact with different ice surfaces near the bottom. This interaction is filmed with a new camera setup.</p><p>Our latest results will be presented at the conference.</p><p>References</p><p>Kolomeychuk, R. J., D. C. McKay, and J. V. Iribarne. 1975. “The Fragmentation and Electrification of Freezing Drops.” <em>Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences</em> 32 (5): 974–79. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<0974>2.0.CO;2.</p><p>Latham, J., and R. Warwicker. 1980. “Charge Transfer Accompanying the Splashing of Supercooled Raindrops on Hailstones.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 106 (449): 559–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49710644912.</p><p>Lauber, Annika, Alexei Kiselev, Thomas Pander, Patricia Handmann, and Thomas Leisner. 2018. “Secondary Ice Formation during Freezing of Levitated Droplets.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 75 (8): 2815–26. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0052.1.</p><p>Lawson, R. Paul, Sarah Woods, and Hugh Morrison. 2015. “The Microphysics of Ice and Precipitation Development in Tropical Cumulus Clouds.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72 (6): 2429–45. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0274.1.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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