Wake Capture, Particle Breakup, and Other Artifacts Associated with Counterflow Virtual Impaction

Counterflow virtual impaction is used to inertially separate cloud elements from inactivated aerosol. Previous airborne, ground-based, and laboratory studies using this technique exhibit artifacts that are not fully explained by the impaction theory. We have performed laboratory studies that show sm...

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Main Authors: Pekour, Mikhail S., Cziczo, Daniel James
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73664
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1851-8740