Ice Crystals
A barely visible crystalline form of ice that has the shape of needles, columns or plates. Ice crystals are so small that they seem to be suspended in air. Ice crystals occur at very low temperatures in a stable atmosphere.
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A barely visible crystalline form of ice that has the shape of needles, columns or plates. Ice crystals are so small that they seem to be suspended in air.
Ice Crystals (IC) A fall of unbranched (snow crystals are branched) ice crystals in the form of needles, columns, or plates. They are also referred to as Diamond Dust.
Ice Crystals
Optical effects resulting from the interaction of light with ice crystals. These effects include: sundogs, sun pillars and halos.
ICE CRYSTALS
Precipitation in the form of slowly falling, singular or unbranched ice needles, columns, or plates. They make up cirriform clouds, frost, and ice fog. Also, they produce optical phenomena such as halos, coronas, and sun pillars.
Ice Crystals: 1) Hexagonal (6-sided) crystals that form upon the freezing of water, may be in one of several shapes: stars, needles, plates, columns or combinations of these forms. 2) Precipitation in the form of slowly falling, ...
ice crystals—A type of precipitation composed of unbranched crystals in the form of needles, columns, or plates; usually having a very slight downward motion, may fall from a cloudless sky.
Ice Crystals- Frozen water vapor suspended in the air.
Instability- A state of the atmosphere in which convection takes place spontaneously, leading to cloud formation and precipitation.
Ice crystals that form on grass and other objects when the temperature and dew point fall below freezing.
Frost Hollow
A valley bottom where cold dense air below 0 degrees Celsius collects at night ...
FROST: Ice crystals produced from water vapor that has frozen on a surface at or below 32ºF/0ºC.
FROST/FREEZE WARNING: Below-freezing temperatures are expected during the growing season and may cause significant damage to plants and crops.
Falling ice crystals that evaporate before reaching the ground.
Flux(1)
the measure of the flow of some quantity per unit area per unit time.
If these ice crystals should fall into a warm lower cloud containing much moisture, they melt and then grow as they fall, sweeping up droplets in their path, and falling as rain.
Frost Ice crystals that are formed by deposition of water vapor on a relatively cold surface.
Frost point The temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure to achieve saturation at or below 0·C (32 ·F).
Frost - White ice crystals that form on a surface, like the ground or leaves of a plant. Frost is created when the air temperature drops below freezing and the water vapor in the air freezes into ice crystals.
White frost Ice crystals that form on surfaces instead of dew when the dew point is below freezing.
Precipitation of ice crystals, most of which are branched (sometimes star shaped).
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Ice crystals (usually cup-shaped, faceted crystals) of low strength formed by sublimation within dry snow beneath the snow surface; a type of hoarfrost. Associated with very fast crystal growth under large temperature gradients.
Deposits of white ice crystals or frozen dew drops on objects on or near the ground. Formed when the surface temperature falls below freezing (0°).
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Snow - Large flat ice crystals that hook onto each other and make white flakes.
Diamond dustA fall of non-branched (snow crystals are branched) ice crystals in the form of needles, columns, or plates.
SNOW Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent ice crystals in complex branched hexagonal form. It most often falls from stratiform clouds, but can fall as snow showers from cumuliform ones.
(SID) (Class C flare)CICirrus clouds- High-level clouds (16,000 feet or higher), composed of ice crystals and appearing in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands.
Produced by reflection of moonlight from ice crystals. Parahelic circle A halo consisting of a faint white circle passing through the sun and running parallel to the horizon for as much as 360° of azimuth.
SnowPrecipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing [deposition] of the water vapor in the air.
They are caused by the refraction of sunlight passing through ice crystals. They are most commonly seen during winter in the middle latitudes and are exclusively associated with cirriform clouds. They are also known as mock suns.
Solar Halo: A ring around the Sun produced by cirrostratus clouds which consist of ice crystals Solar Wind: Is produced by charged ion particles escaping from the Sun. Solar Wind: The solar wind moves on average about 400 kilometers per sec/ 250 mps.
Stratus does not usually produce precipitation, but when it does occur it is in the form of minute particles, such as drizzle, ice crystals, or snow grains.
Aerosols are important in the atmosphere as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets and ice crystals, as participants in various chemical cycles, and as absorbers and scatterers of solar radiation, ...
In many clouds, raindrops actually begin as tiny ice crystals that form when part or all of a cloud is below freezing. As the ice crystals fall inside the cloud, they may collide with water droplets that freeze onto them.
The white trails are ribbons of ice crystals. As a by-product of the exhaust of aircraft engines, water vapour is trailed from the engine exhaust which adds to the local humidity of the air the aircraft is flying through, ...
The most important is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, ...
Bergeron ProcessThe process by which ice crystals in a cloud grow at the expense of supercooled liquid water droplets.
Frost: The formation of ice crystals on the ground or other surfaces in the form of scales, needles, feathers, or fans.
A type of fog consisting of ice crystals suspended in the air. The name "pogonip" is a Shoshone word meaning "white death".
It refers to ice crystals or needle-like spicules which form in supercooled water of river or stream currents which move too fast for surface ice sheets to form. In salt water is is called lolly ice.
Frost- Frost describes the formation of thin ice crystals on the ground or other surfaces in the form of scales, needles, feathers, or fans.
CONTRAIL - A visible trail of vapor and / or ice crystals caused by a high-flying aircraft. The hot exhaust from an aircraft engine contains various gases, including water vapor.
frost: 1) a cover of ice crystals produced when atmospheric water vapor is deposited directly on a surface when the temperature is below freezing, 2) the condition that exists when the temperature of the earth's surface and earth-bound objects ...
Fog A hydrometeor consisting of a visible aggregate of minute water droplets (or ice crystals), suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface. According to international definition, fog reduces visibility below one kilometer.
CIRRIFORM Clouds composed of small particles, mostly ice crystals. Because the particles are fairly widely dispersed, this usually results in relative transparency and whiteness, often producing a halo phenomena not observed in other clouds forms.
We now know that they are the optical result of the refraction of light from the sun or moon by ice crystals in the very high cloud (9,000 meters) called cirrus or cirrostratus.
Cloud: Aggregate of very small droplets of water, ice crystals or the mixture of both with its base above the surface of the Earth.
Cirrostratus: a cloud of a class characterized by a composition of ice crystals and often by the production of halo phenomena and appearing as a whitish and usually somewhat fibrous veil, ...
Snow A solid form of precipitation composed of ice crystals in complex hexagonal form.
Snowflake An aggregate of ice crystals that falls from a cloud.
Snow flurries Light showers of snow that fall intermittently.
Freezing fog is different from ice fog. Ice fog occurs when the fog particles turn to ice crystals and the outside temperature has to drop well below freezing for the supercooled droplets to turn to ice crystals while still in the air.
Precipitation in the form or small tabular and columnar white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 0 degrees Celsius.
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Cirrus (Ci) They are thin, feather like clouds composed entirely of ice crystals. They form at altitudes between 16,500 to 45,000 feet above ground.
Melting Level
Level at which ice crystals and snowflakes melt during their descent through the atmosphere.
Meteorologist
Person who is professionally employed in the study or practice of meteorology.
CIRRUS: High clouds, usually above 18,000 feet, composed of ice crystals.
CLEAR: Sky condition of less than 1/10 cloud coverage.
CLIMATE: The historical record of average daily and seasonal weather events.
Cloud - A visible collection of very fine water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes from just above the ground to several miles above sea level.
cumulus clouds (tall, cotton ball) and stratus clouds (layered); these can be divided even further to 4 sub-groups describing altitude: 20,000 ft and above are the cirrus or cirro clouds (cirrocumulus, cirrostratus), composed of mostly ice crystals; ...
Halos: Whitish or colored rings or arcs around the sun or moon that are produced by refraction of light by ice crystals.
Haze: A suspension of small particles in the air, which reduces visibility by scattering light.
Cloud - A form of condensation best described as a dense concentration of suspended water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
cloud forms
stratiform: flat or layered
cumuliform: puffy or globular
cirroform: wispy, made of ice crystals ...
The rising air now cools and the moisture in that air parcel begins to condense into ice crystals and clouds form.
When enough moisture condenses out of the air, it falls in the form of snow over the water and the lee side (downwind side) of the lake.
 See also: Cloud, Water, Clouds, Air, Temperature
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