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Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5473-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5473-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
Research article
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12 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 12 Aug 2021

Effects of the large-scale circulation on temperature and water vapor distributions in the Π Chamber

Jesse C. Anderson, Subin Thomas, Prasanth Prabhakaran, Raymond A. Shaw, and Will Cantrell

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Fluctuations due to turbulence in Earth's atmosphere can play a role in how many droplets a cloud has and, eventually, whether that cloud rains or evaporates. We study such processes in Michigan Tech's cloud chamber. Here, we characterize the turbulent and large-scale motions of air in the chamber, measuring the spatial and temporal distributions of temperature and water vapor, which we can combine to get the distribution of relative humidity, which governs cloud formation and dissipation.
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