The altitude of snow growth by riming and vapor deposition in mixed-phase orographic clouds

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 519-522

  Lowenthal, Douglas H ^a   Borys, Randolph D ^a   Cotton, William ^b   Saleeby, Stephen ^b   Cohn, Stephen A ^c   Brown, William O J ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Orographic cloud; Oxygen isotopic ratio; Rimed mass fraction; Snow growth

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD WATER; DROPLET DIAMETERS; GROWTH PROCESS; MASS FRACTION; MODEL SIMULATION; OROGRAPHIC CLOUD; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC RATIO; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SHARP INCREASE; SNOW CRYSTALS; STORM PEAK LABORATORY; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; UNDER WATER;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; HYDROGEN BONDS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; OXYGEN; VAPOR DEPOSITION; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

SNOW;

OXYGEN; SNOW; SULFATE; WATER;

ACCRETION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOTOPIC RATIO; MODEL VALIDATION; OROGRAPHY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SNOW; SULFATE; WATER CONTENT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLOUD; COLD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTAL; FRACTIONATION; GROWTH; LABORATORY; MASS ACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VAPOR; WATER CONTENT; WINTER;

EID: 78649731906     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.09.061     Document Type: Article

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