Cloud Physics - Research Results

Representative Publications (copies for research use are available upon request)

Droplet Clustering and Turbulence

Saw, E. W., R. A. Shaw, S. Ayyalasomayajula, P. Y. Chuang, and A. Gylfason, 2008: Inertial clustering of particles in high-Reynolds-number turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 100, 214501.

Lehmann, K., H. Siebert, M. Wendisch, and R. A. Shaw, 2007: Evidence for inertial droplet clustering in weakly turbulent clouds. Tellus, 59B, 57-65.

Siebert, H., H. Franke, K. Lehmann, R. Maser, E. W. Saw, D. Schell, R. A. Shaw, and M. Wendisch, 2006: Probing fine-scale dynamics and microphysics of clouds with helicopter-borne measurements. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 1727-1738.

Kostinski, A. B., and R. A. Shaw, 2005: Fluctuations and luck in droplet growth by coalescence. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 235-244.

Shaw, R. A., 2003: Particle-turbulence interactions in atmospheric clouds. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 35, 183-227.

Shaw, R. A., A. B. Kostinski, and D. D. Lanterman, 2002: Super-exponential extinction of radiation in a negatively-correlated random medium. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 75, 13-20.

Shaw, R. A., A. B. Kostinski, and M. L. Larsen, 2002: Towards quantifying droplet clustering in clouds. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 128, 1043-1057.

Kostinski, A. B., and R. A. Shaw, 2001: Scale-dependent droplet clustering in turbulent clouds. Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 434, 389-398.

Shaw, R. A., and S. P. Oncley, 2001: Acceleration intermittency and enhanced collision kernels in turbulent clouds. Atmospheric Research, 59-60, 77-87.

Shaw, R. A., 2000: Supersaturation intermittency in turbulent clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 3452-3456.

Shaw, R. A., W. C. Reade, L. R. Collins, and J. Verlinde, 1999: Reply to comments. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 1437-1441.

Shaw, R. A., W. C. Reade, L. R. Collins, and J. Verlinde, 1998: Preferential concentration of cloud droplets by turbulence: Effects on the early evolution of cumulus cloud droplet spectra. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 1965-1976.

Ice, Water, and Nucleation

Durant, A. J., R. A. Shaw, W. I. Rose, Y. Mi, and G. G. J. Ernst, 2008: Ice nucleation and overseeding of ice in volcanic clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D09206, doi:10.1029/2007JD009064.

Durant, A. J., and R. A. Shaw, 2005: Evaporation freezing by contact nucleation inside-out. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L20814, doi:10.1029/2005GL024175.

Shaw, R. A., A. J. Durant, and Y. Mi, 2005: Heterogeneous surface crystallization observed in undercooled water. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 9865-9868.

Shaw, R. A., and D. Lamb, 1999: Experimental determination of the thermal accommodation and condensation coefficients of liquid water. Journal of Chemical Physics, 111, 10659-10663.

Shaw, R. A., and D. Lamb, 1999: Homogeneous freezing of evaporating cloud droplets. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1181-1184.

Jeffries, M. O., R. A. Shaw, K. Morris, A. Veazey, and H. R. Krouse, 1994: Crystal structure, stable isotopes (del18O), and development of sea ice in the Ross, Amundsen, and Bellingshausen Seas, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99 (C1), 985-995.

Jeffries, M. O., W. F. Weeks, R. Shaw, and K. Morris, 1993: Structural characteristics of congelation and platelet ice and their role in the development of Antarctic land-fast sea ice. Journal of Glaciology, 39 (132), 223-238.

Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques

Chuang, P. Y., E. W. Saw, J. D. Small, R. A. Shaw, C. M. Sipperley, G. A. Payne, and W. D. Bachalo, 2008: Airborne phase Doppler interferometry for cloud microphysical measurements. Aerosol Science and Technology, accepted for publication.

Fong, C. S., N. D. Black, P. A. Kiefer, and R. A. Shaw, 2007: An experiment on Rayleigh instability of charged liquid drops. American Journal of Physics, 75, 499-503.

Siebert, H., K. Lehmann, and R. A. Shaw, 2007: On the use of hot-wire anemometers for turbulence measurements in clouds. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24, 980-993.

Sergeyev, A. V., and R. A. Shaw, 2006: An inexpensive uniform-size aerosol generator. Measurement Science and Technology, 17, N41-N44.

Yang, W., A. B. Kostinski, and R. A. Shaw, 2006: Phase signature for particle detection with digital in-line holography. Optics Letters, 31, 1399-1401.

Yang, W., A. B. Kostinski, and R. A. Shaw, 2005: Depth-of-focus reduction for digital in-line holography of particle fields. Optics Letters, 30, 1303-1305.

Fugal, J. P., R. A. Shaw, E. W. Saw, and A. V. Sergeyev, 2004: Airborne digital holographic system for cloud particle measurements. Applied Optics, 43, 5987-5995.

Shaw, R. A., D. Lamb, and A. M. Moyle, 2000: An electrodynamic levitation system for studying individual cloud particles under upper-tropospheric conditions. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 940-948.

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