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The formation of cubic ice under conditions relevant to Earth's atmosphere

机译:在与地球大气有关的条件下形成立方冰

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An important mechanism for ice cloud formation in the Earth's atmosphere is homogeneous nucleation of ice in aqueous droplets, and this process is generally assumed to produce hexagonal ice(1,2). However, there are some reports that the metastable crystalline phase of ice, cubic ice, may form in the Earth's atmosphere(3-5). Here we present laboratory experiments demonstrating that cubic ice forms when micrometre-sized droplets of pure water and aqueous solutions freeze homogeneously at cooling rates approaching those found in the atmosphere. We find that the formation of cubic ice is dominant when droplets freeze at temperatures below 190 K, which is in the temperature range relevant for polar stratospheric clouds and clouds in the tropical tropopause region. These results, together with heat transfer calculations, suggest that cubic ice will form in the Earth's atmosphere. If there were a significant fraction of cubic ice in some cold clouds this could increase their water vapour pressure, and modify their microphysics and ice particle size distributions(5). Under specific conditions this may lead to enhanced dehydration of the tropopause region(5).
机译:在地球大气中形成冰云的一个重要机制是水滴中冰的均匀成核作用,一般认为该过程会产生六角形冰(1,2)。但是,有报道说,地球大气中可能会形成亚稳冰晶相,即立方冰(3-5)。在这里,我们目前的实验室实验表明,当微米级大小的纯净水和水溶液液滴以接近大气中的冷却速率均匀冷冻时,就会形成立方冰。我们发现,当液滴在低于190 K的温度下冻结时,立方冰的形成占主导地位,该温度在与平流层极地云和热带对流层顶区域的云有关的温度范围内。这些结果以及传热计算表明,立方冰将在地球大气中形成。如果在一些冷云中有大量的立方冰,这可能会增加它们的水蒸气压力,并改变其微物理学和冰的粒径分布(5)。在特定条件下,这可能导致对流层顶区域的脱水作用增强(5)。

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