Atmospheric Icing
Atmospheric icing is the creation of ice from water vapor, supercooled droplets, or ice crystals originating in the atmosphere. [1]
Atmospheric icing is a phenomenon of complexity and many affecting factors. Atmospheric icing can be either precipitation icing (liquid water falls on the surface and freezes on it) or in-cloud icing (icing that occurs in a cloud or for example in fog).
Liquid water in droplets can be in form of drop, droplet, hail or snow flake. The significant factor in atmospheric icing is super cooling of the water droplets, which means that temperature of droplets in the clouds or air is subzero. Depending on the icing conditions ice will occur as glaze ice, rime ice or mixed ice. Glaze is clear, dense, and hard ice. Rime ice is white and less dense, and softer. Mixed ice is a combination of glaze and rime and has properties from both. The accreted ice type is defined by factors as temperature, icing type , wind speed, air humidity, precipitation and water phase, material properties (surface topography and chemistry), wetting behavior and surface temperature. [2] [3] [4]
References
- ↑ Charles C. Ryerson. April 2013. Icing Management for Coast Guard Assets. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. ERDC/ C R R E L TR-13-7.
- ↑ Niklas Kandelin. 2021. ICING FACTORS AFFECTING RAILWAY TRAFFIC. Master of Science Thesis. Tampere University.
- ↑ Farzaneh, M. (2008) Atmospheric Icing of Power Networks. 1st ed. 2008. [Online]. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
- ↑ Ingvaldsen, K. (2017) Atmospheric icing in a changing climate: Impact of higher boundary temperatures on simulations of atmospheric ice accretion on structures during the 2015-2016 icing winter in West-Norway.
- ↑ Richardfabi. Public domain. Wikipedia. Atmospheric icing.