Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3209-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3209-2020
Technical note
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17 Mar 2020
Technical note |  | 17 Mar 2020

Technical note: Fundamental aspects of ice nucleation via pore condensation and freezing including Laplace pressure and growth into macroscopic ice

Claudia Marcolli

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Pore condensation and freezing (PCF) is an ice nucleation mechanism explaining ice formation at low ice supersaturation. It is assumed that liquid water condenses in pores of solid aerosol particles below water saturation followed by ice nucleation within the pores. This study discusses conditions of pore filling, homogeneous ice nucleation within the volume of porewater, and growth of ice out of the pores, taking the effect of negative pressure within pores below water saturation into account.
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