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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) for Cloud Droplets - Laboratory Investigations

Piotr M. Korczyk (1), Szymon P. Malinowski (2), Tomasz A. Kowalewski (1)
1. IPPT PAN, Department of Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, Warsaw, Poland
2. Institut of Geophysics, Warsaw University, Poland


Interaction between small-scale turbulence and cloud particles is a key issue in warm rain formation mechanism, which is an important meteorological and climatological challenge. We investigate this interaction observing turbulent motion of cloud droplets in a laboratory chamber (1m deep, 1m wide and 1.8m high) by means of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). A specially developed multi-scale PIV algorithm is used to retrieve two components of velocity of cloud droplets.



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