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.
- Authors:
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[1];
[2];
[3]
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
- Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen (Switzerland)
- Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23). Climate and Environmental Sciences Division; German Research Foundation (DFG); Israel Science Foundation; National Aeronautic 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
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; atmospheric chemistry; climate and earth system modelling; hydrology
Citation Formats
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.
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. doi:10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4.
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. doi:10.1038/s41612-020-0106-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1593550.
@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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