INVESTIGADORES
AVILA Eldo Edgardo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Graupel charging in stratiform cloud conditions
Autor/es:
LIGHEZZOLO R. A.; CASTELLANO N.; PEREYRA R. G.; AVILA E. E.
Reunión:
Conferencia; XIV International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity; 2011
Resumen:
New laboratory measurements of the charge transfer in collisions between vapor grown ice
crystals and a graupel particle (1 mm radius) growing by riming are presented in this work. The experiments
were conducted for ambient temperatures between 7°C and 13°C, air velocities between 1 and 3 m/s and
effective liquid water content up to to 0.7 g/m3, with the goal of studying the performance of this mechanism
under microphysical conditions similar to those found in stratiform cloud regions. The ice crystal concentration
was determined in each experiment, which allows to estimate the average charge transfer per collision. Charge
diagrams of the sign of the electric current on the graupel as a function of the ambient temperature and the
effective liquid water content for each velocity are presented. The magnitude of the charge transfer per collision
ranges from 0.01 to 0.2 fC.