Comparative study on immersion freezing utilizing single-droplet levitation methods

Szakáll, Miklós; Debertshäuser, Michael; Lackner, Christian Philipp; Mayer, Amelie; Eppers, Oliver; Diehl, Karoline; Theis, Alexander; Mitra, Subir Kumar; Borrmann, Stephan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3289-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

Research article

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04 Mar 2021

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2021

Comparative study on immersion freezing utilizing single-droplet levitation methods

Miklós Szakáll, Michael Debertshäuser, Christian Philipp Lackner, Amelie Mayer, Oliver Eppers, Karoline Diehl, Alexander Theis, Subir Kumar Mitra, and Stephan Borrmann

Data sets

Data for figures in "Comparative Study On Immersion Freezing Utilizing Single Droplet Levitation Methods" Miklós Szakáll, Michael Debertshäuser, Christian Philipp Lackner, Amelie Mayer, Oliver Eppers, Karoline Diehl, Alexander Theis, Subir Kumar Mitra, and Stephan Borrmann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4436153

Video supplement

Immersion freezing of a liquid drop in the Mainz Acoustic Levitator Miklós Szakáll and Amelie Mayer https://doi.org/10.5446/46729

Short summary

The freezing of cloud drops is promoted by ice-nucleating particles immersed in the drops. This process is essential to understand ice and subsequent precipitation formation in clouds. We investigated the efficiency of several particle types to trigger immersion freezing with two single-drop levitation techniques: a wind tunnel and an acoustic levitator. The evaluation accounted for different conditions during our two series of experiments, which is also applicable to future comparison studies.