A New Approach to the Testing of Ice-Forming Aerosols in Cloud Environments

Abstract

The elaborated method allows tracking the dynamics of the process in climate chamber under impact of the ice-forming reagent. Simultaneous registration of cloud transmittance and recording of the ice forming process gives us an integral picture of AgI reagent effect on testing cloud. In this study we find a positive correlation between testing cloud transmission and ice particle formation. We showed that count of ice particles and determination of its density and size is possible directly in climate chamber as well as dynamics of particles deposition.