Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5025-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5025-2018
Research article
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05 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 05 Sep 2018

Development and characterization of a high-efficiency, aircraft-based axial cyclone cloud water collector

Ewan Crosbie, Matthew D. Brown, Michael Shook, Luke Ziemba, Richard H. Moore, Taylor Shingler, Edward Winstead, K. Lee Thornhill, Claire Robinson, Alexander B. MacDonald, Hossein Dadashazar, Armin Sorooshian, Andreas Beyersdorf, Alexis Eugene, Jeffrey Collett Jr., Derek Straub, and Bruce Anderson

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Aug 2018) by Szymon Malinowski
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Short summary
A new aircraft-mounted probe for collecting samples of cloud water has been designed, fabricated, and extensively tested. Cloud drop composition provides valuable insight into atmospheric processes, but separating liquid samples from the airstream in a controlled way at flight speeds has proven difficult. The features of the design have been analysed with detailed numerical flow simulations and the new probe has demonstrated improved efficiency and performance through extensive flight testing.