Will Cantrell
Department of Physics
Michigan Tech

Selected Publications

Ochshorn, E. and W. Cantrell. Ice nucleation on hydrophilic silicon, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 134701, 2008.

Kostinski, A. and W. Cantrell. Entropic aspects of supercooled droplet freezing, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2961-2971, 2008.

Cantrell, W., E. Ochshorn, A. Kostinski, and K. Bozin. The vapor pressure of supercooled water measured using infrared spectroscopy, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25, 1724-1729, 2008.

Cantrell, W. and C. Robinson. Heterogeneous freezing of ammonium sulfate and sodium chloride solutions by long chain alcohols. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(7): Art. No. L07802, 2006.

Ochshorn, E. and W. Cantrell. Towards understanding ice nucleation by long chain alcohols, J. Chem Phys., 124(5): Art. No. 054714, 2006.

Cantrell, W. and A. Heymsfield. Production of ice in tropospheric clouds: A review. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 86, 795-807, 2005.
Online copy of the article here

Larsen, M., W. Cantrell,  J. Kannosto, and A. Kostinski. Detection of spatial correlations among aerosol particles. Aerosol Sci. Technol., 37, 476-485, 2003.

Ewing, George E., Michelle C. Foster, Will Cantrell, and Vlad Sadtchenko. Thin film water on insulator surfaces, In Water in Confined Geometries, Eds. J.Paul Devlin and Victoria Buch (Springer-Verlag), 2003.

Dusek, U., D.S. Covert, A. Wiedensohler, C. Neusüss, D. Weise, and W. Cantrell. Cloud condensation nuclei spectra derived from size distributions and hygroscopic properties of the aerosol in coastal south-west Portugal during ACE-2. Tellus, 55B, 35-53, 2003.

Cantrell, W., C. McCrory, and G. Ewing. Nucleated deliquescence of salt. J. Chem. Phys., 116, 2116-2120, 2002.

Cantrell, W. and G. Ewing. Attenuated (but not Total) Internal Reflection FTIR spectroscopy of thin films. Applied Spectroscopy, 56, 665-669, 2002.

Cantrell, W., G. Shaw, G. Cass, Z. Chowdhury, L. Hughes, K. Prather, S. Guazzotti, and K. Coffee. Closure between aerosol particles and cloud condensation nuclei at Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28711-28718, 2001.

Cantrell, W., and G. Ewing. Thin film water on muscovite mica. J. Phys. Chem. B, 105, 5434-5439, 2001.

Cantrell, W. and C. Cooper, Why don’t clouds fall out of the sky? The PUMAS Collection, 2001.

Cantrell, W., G. Shaw, C. Leck, L. Granat, and H. Cachier, Relationships between cloud condensation nuclei spectra and aerosol particles on a south-north transect of the Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 15313-15320, 2000.

Cantrell, W., G. Shaw, and R. Benner. Cloud properties inferred from bimodal aerosol number distributions. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 27615-27624, 1999.

Cantrell, W., G. Shaw, R. Benner, D. Veazey. Evidence for sulfuric acid coated particles in the Arctic air mass. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 3005-3008, 1997.

Ji, Q., G. Shaw, and W. Cantrell. A new instrument for measuring cloud condensation nuclei : Cloud Condensation Nucleus “Remover”. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 28013-28019, 1998.

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