Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9255-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9255-2016
Research article
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28 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 28 Jul 2016

Theoretical investigation of mixing in warm clouds – Part 2: Homogeneous mixing

Mark Pinsky, Alexander Khain, Alexei Korolev, and Leehi Magaritz-Ronen

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Short summary
The evolution of monodisperse and polydisperse droplet size distributions (DSDs) during homogeneous mixing is analyzed. It is shown that the classic conceptual scheme, according to which homogeneous mixing leads to a decrease in the droplet mass under constant droplet concentration, is valid only in cases of initially very narrow DSDs. In cases of wide DSDs a decrease of both mass and concentration take place such that the characteristic droplet sizes remain nearly constant.
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