Snowfall induced by corona discharge
General Physics
2016-07-19 v1
Abstract
We demonstrated for the first time the condensation and precipitation (or snowfall) induced by a corona discharge inside a cloud chamber. Ionic wind was found to have played a more significant role than ions as extra Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN). 2.25 g of net snow enhancement was measured after applying a 30 kV corona discharge for 25 min. In comparison with another newly emerging femtosecond laser filamentation method, the snow precipitation induced by the corona discharge has about 4 orders of magnitude higher wall-plug efficiency under similar conditions.
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@article{arxiv.1607.05125,
title = {Snowfall induced by corona discharge},
author = {Jingjing Ju and Tie-Jun Wang and Ruxin Li and Shengzhe Du and Haiyi Sun and Yonghong Liu and Ye Tian and Yafeng Bai and Yaoxiang Liu and Na Chen and Jingwei Wang and Cheng Wang and Jiansheng Liu and S. L. Chin and Zhizhan Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05125},
year = {2016}
}
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An articles with 21 pages and 5 figures on corona discharge induced snowfall