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The collected works of Irving Langmuir : with contributions in memoriam including a complete bibliography of his works. Volume 11, Cloud nucleation /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Pergamon Press,
[1962]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Cloud Nucleation; Copyright Page; Honorary Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; Preface to Volume 11; Table of Contents; Introduction to Volume 11; Effects of Stratus Seeding; Effects of Cumulus Seeding; Periodic Seeding and Widespread Control; The Present State of the Art; References; PART 1: NUCLEATION OF CLOUDS WITH DRY ICE (UNPUBLISHED); CHAPTER 1. SUMMARY OF RESULTS THUS FAR OBTAINED IN ARTIFICIAL NUCLEATION OF CLOUDS; History of our Early Work; Ice Crystals Within Clouds; Schaefer's Experiments on the Artificial Production of Ice Nuclei; First Seeding of Clouds.
- Flight Test of December 30, 1946Flight Test of March 7, 1947; Flight Test of March 12, 1947; Flight Test of April 7, 1947; Conclusions; Use of Silver Iodide and other Substances as Ice Nuclei; Widespread Effects; CHAPTER 2. THE ANALYSIS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC DATA SHOWING THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY SUPERCOOLED CLOUDS WITH ICE NUCLEI; Analysis of Photographs of the Seeded Area Taken from above Stratus Clouds; Method of Constructing the Grids; CHAPTER 3. PROPOSED FLIGHT PLANS FOR CLOUD STUDIES; Flight A Cloud Seeding of Solid Overcast.
- Flight B Cloud Modification of Supercooled High Altitude or Tall Cumulus CloudsFlight C Cloud Studies and Attempts to Produce Clouds in Clear Air; Flight D Cloud Modification Dry Run; Flight E Study of Microstructure of Clouds at Above Freezing Temperatures; Combustion of Inflammable Liquids Containing Silver and Iodine; CHAPTER 4. THE PRODUCTION OF RAIN BY A CHAIN REACTION IN CUMULUS CLOUDS AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE FREEZING; Evaporation-Condensation Theory of Cloud Droplet Growth; Natural Processes which Cause the Formation of Heavy Rain; Accretion Theory of Growth of Raindrops.
- Deposition of Rime on Cylinders, Spheres, and RibbonsCalculation of Terminal Velocity U of a Falling Drop; Calculation of the Effective Efficiency E of Droplet Collection by Falling Drops; The Rate of Growth of Falling Drops by Accretion; Hawaiian Experiments in Dry-ice Seeding of Clouds above 0�C; Rain Produced by a Chain Reaction; Applications of the Theory to the Leopold-Halstead Data; Types of Rain and Snow in Relation to Spontaneous and to Artificial Seeding; Self-propagating Storms; Widespread Weather Effects that Start from Small Beginnings.
- CHAPTER 5. STUDIES OF THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY DRY ICE SEEDING OF STRATUS CLOUDSAn Analysis of Flight No. 23, April 29, 1948; Flight No. 23; Seeding Operations During Flight No. 23; General Effects Produced by Seeding; Effects Produced on the Temperature and Turbulence within a Stratus Cloud by Seeding; Observations from the B-25 Plane; The Propagation of Ice Nuclei in Stratus Clouds and the Effect of Stability in Cloud Layers; The Effects of Overseeding; CHAPTER 6. PROGRESS IN CLOUD MODIFICATION BY PROJECT CIRRUS.