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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A [[cloud]] composed of supercooled liquid water drops.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The importance of such clouds lies in their unstable composition, since natural or artificial addition of [[ice crystals]] or other [[ice nuclei]] will initiate the rapid [[phase change]] to a [[mixed cloud]] or to an ice crystal cloud as described by the [[Bergeron–Findeisen theory]]. This type of cloud constitutes the principal source of [[aircraft icing]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A [[cloud]] composed of supercooled liquid water drops.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The importance of such clouds lies in their unstable composition, since natural or artificial addition of [[ice crystals]] or other [[ice nucleus|ice nuclei]] will initiate the rapid [[phase change]] to a [[mixed cloud]] or to an ice crystal cloud as described by the [[Bergeron–Findeisen process|Bergeron–Findeisen theory]]. This type of cloud constitutes the principal source of [[aircraft icing]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:01, 25 April 2012
supercooled cloud
A cloud composed of supercooled liquid water drops.
The importance of such clouds lies in their unstable composition, since natural or artificial addition of ice crystals or other ice nuclei will initiate the rapid phase change to a mixed cloud or to an ice crystal cloud as described by the Bergeron–Findeisen theory. This type of cloud constitutes the principal source of aircraft icing.