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15 Apr 2015
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| 15 Apr 2015
Dimensions and aspect ratios of natural ice crystals
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
G. M. McFarquhar
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Y. P. Hong
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
S.-S. Lee
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, Maryland, USA
C. H. Jung
Department of Health Management, Kyungin Women's University, Incheon, South Korea
R. P. Lawson
SPEC Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
Q. Mo
SPEC Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Dimensions of ice crystals increased with an increase in temperature and the L-W relationships of crystals with a given L depended heavily on temperature, whereas the aspect ratio depended only weakly on temperature. The relative frequency of occurrence of plates was much larger in anvil clouds compared to that of columnar crystals (i.e., columns and bullet rosettes), whereas the relative occurrence frequency of columnar crystals was much larger in non-anvil clouds.
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