Sensitivities of immersion freezing: Reconciling classical nucleation theory and deterministic expressions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3320-3324

  Ervens, Barbara ^a,b   Feingold, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

classical nucleation theory; Heterogeneous freezing; singular freezing

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEOUS FREEZING; IMMERSION FREEZING; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; PARAMETER SPACES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; TIME INDEPENDENTS;

CONTACT ANGLE; FREEZING; NUCLEATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ICE;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FREEZING; ICE; ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84880555691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50580     Document Type: Article

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