Model Stratocumulus Clouds - Help!
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Model Stratocumulus Clouds - Help!
My friend and I are doing a project on the breakup of stratocumulus cloud decks due to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. To test our project, we need to make stratocumuli in a test chamber. How do we regulate the conditions so that the clouds we get model the properties of stratocumuli specifically, rather than just a regular cloud?
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Re: Model Stratocumulus Clouds - Help!
Hi IsaKay,
This topic is definitely outside of my expertise. But a brief online search turned up a couple of articles describing work with laboratory cloud simulations:
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/39/16164
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... louds_tops
These test chambers appear to be very sophisticated and I don't know if a simpler version might be capable of the experiment you want to conduct. For example, a very simple cloud chamber is described here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... own-cloud/
You might want to research the atmospheric conditions associated with stratocumulus clouds. You may find that it's possible to mimic those in a simple cloud chamber.
I hope this helps. Please ask again if you have more questions.
A. Norman
This topic is definitely outside of my expertise. But a brief online search turned up a couple of articles describing work with laboratory cloud simulations:
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/39/16164
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... louds_tops
These test chambers appear to be very sophisticated and I don't know if a simpler version might be capable of the experiment you want to conduct. For example, a very simple cloud chamber is described here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... own-cloud/
You might want to research the atmospheric conditions associated with stratocumulus clouds. You may find that it's possible to mimic those in a simple cloud chamber.
I hope this helps. Please ask again if you have more questions.
A. Norman