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Articles | Volume 20, issue 13
Articles | Volume 20, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7895-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7895-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 13
Technical note
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08 Jul 2020
Technical note |  | 08 Jul 2020

Technical note: Equilibrium droplet size distributions in a turbulent cloud chamber with uniform supersaturation

Steven K. Krueger

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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.
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