Revisiting the differential freezing nucleus spectra  derived from drop-freezing experiments: methods  of calculation, applications, and confidence limits

Vali, Gabor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1219-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 1219–1231, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1219-2019

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 1219–1231, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1219-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Research article 26 Feb 2019

Research article | 26 Feb 2019

Revisiting the differential freezing nucleus spectra derived from drop-freezing experiments: methods of calculation, applications, and confidence limits

Gabor Vali

Data sets

Data used in the publication Revisiting the differential freezing nucleus spectra derived from drop freezing experiments; methods of calculation, applications and confidence limits R. Sullivan and G. Vali https://doi.org/10.15786/y5xr-pw35

Short summary

The abundance of freezing nuclei in water samples is routinely determined by experiments involving the cooling of sample drops and observing the temperatures at which the drops freeze. This is used for characterizing the nucleating abilities of materials in laboratory preparations or to determine the numbers of nucleating particles in rain, snow, river water or other natural waters. The evaluation of drop-freezing experiments in terms of differential nucleus spectra is advocated in the paper.