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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
卷 131, 期 609, 页码 2047-2062出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.65
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cloud microphysics; droplet distribution
We present the results of a laboratory study of the spatial distribution of cloud droplets in a turbulent environment. An artificial, weakly turbulent cloud, consisting of droplets of diameter around 14 mu m, is observed in a laboratory chamber. Droplets on a vertical cross-section through the cloud interior are imaged using laser sheet photography. Images are digitized and numerically processed in order to retrieve droplet positions in a vertical plane. The spatial distribution of droplets in the range of scales, 1, from 4 to 80 mm is characterized by: the clustering index Cl(l), the volume averaged pair correlation function eta(l) and a local density defined on a basis of correlation analysis. The results indicate that, even in weak turbulence in the chamber that is less intense and less intermittent than turbulence observed in clouds, droplets are not spread according to the Poisson distribution. The importance of this deviation from the Poisson distribution is unclear when looking at Cl(l) and eta(l). The local density indicates that in small scales each droplet has, on average, more neighbours than expected from the average droplet concentration and gives a qualitative and intuitive measure of clustering.
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