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Technical note: Equilibrium droplet size distributions in a turbulent cloud chamber with uniform supersaturation
Steven K. Krueger
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Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Short summary
When CCN are injected into a turbulent cloud chamber at a constant rate, and the rate of droplet activation is balanced by the rate of droplet fallout, a steady-state droplet size distribution (DSD) can be achieved. Analytic DSDs and PDFs of droplet radius were derived for such conditions when there is uniform supersaturation. Given the chamber height, the analytic PDF is determined by the supersaturation alone. This could allow one to infer the supersaturation that produced a measured PDF.
When CCN are injected into a turbulent cloud chamber at a constant rate, and the rate of droplet...
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