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Title: Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets

Abstract

Atmospheric immersion freezing (IF), a heterogeneous ice nucleation process where an ice nucleating particle (INP) is immersed in supercooled water, is a dominant ice formation pathway impacting the hydrological cycle and climate. Implementation of IF derived from field and laboratory data in cloud and climate models is difficult due to the high variability in spatio-temporal scales, INP composition, and morphological complexity. We demonstrate that IF can be consistently described by a stochastic nucleation process accounting for uncertainties in the INP surface area. This approach accounts for time-dependent freezing, a wide range of surface areas and challenges phenomenological descriptions typically used to interpret IF. The results have an immediate impact on the current description, interpretation, and experiments of IF and its implementation in models. The findings are in accord with nucleation theory, and thus should hold for any supercooled liquid material that nucleates in contact with a substrate.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]
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  1. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
  2. Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen (Switzerland)
  3. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
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Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division; German Research Foundation (DFG); Israel Science Foundation; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
OSTI Identifier:
1593550
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0016370; NNX17AJ12G; 213/16
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; atmospheric chemistry; climate and earth system modelling; hydrology

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Knopf, Daniel A., Alpert, Peter A., Zipori, Assaf, Reicher, Naama, and Rudich, Yinon. Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4.
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Knopf, Daniel A., Alpert, Peter A., Zipori, Assaf, Reicher, Naama, & Rudich, Yinon. Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4
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Knopf, Daniel A., Alpert, Peter A., Zipori, Assaf, Reicher, Naama, and Rudich, Yinon. Fri . "Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1593550.
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@article{osti_1593550,
title = {Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets},
author = {Knopf, Daniel A. and Alpert, Peter A. and Zipori, Assaf and Reicher, Naama and Rudich, Yinon},
abstractNote = {Atmospheric immersion freezing (IF), a heterogeneous ice nucleation process where an ice nucleating particle (INP) is immersed in supercooled water, is a dominant ice formation pathway impacting the hydrological cycle and climate. Implementation of IF derived from field and laboratory data in cloud and climate models is difficult due to the high variability in spatio-temporal scales, INP composition, and morphological complexity. We demonstrate that IF can be consistently described by a stochastic nucleation process accounting for uncertainties in the INP surface area. This approach accounts for time-dependent freezing, a wide range of surface areas and challenges phenomenological descriptions typically used to interpret IF. The results have an immediate impact on the current description, interpretation, and experiments of IF and its implementation in models. The findings are in accord with nucleation theory, and thus should hold for any supercooled liquid material that nucleates in contact with a substrate.},
doi = {10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4},
journal = {npj Climate and Atmospheric Science},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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