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The results of experimental investigations into the action of polydispersion salt powders on model cloud media are presented. The results of experiments show a considerable positive effect of the modification of convective clouds by salt powders in order to obtain additional precipitation. The introduction of polydispersion salt powder into a forming cloud medium leads to the appearance of large cloud droplets and to the droplet-spectrum broadening. This result is a positive factor for the stimulation of coagulation processes and further precipitation formation. No “overseeding” phenomenon (when, instead of the enlargement of droplets, their sizes decrease and the concentration of cloud droplets increases) is observed at rather high mass concentrations of the introduced powder.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Drofa, V.G. Eran’kov, V.N. Ivanov, A.G. Shilin, G.F. Iskevich, 2013, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 327–335.
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Drofa, A.S., Eran’kov, V.G., Ivanov, V.N. et al. Experimental investigations of the effect of cloud-medium modification by salt powders. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 49, 298–306 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433813030043
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