Dictionary definition: cirriform

Article: Light Scattering by Quasi-Spherical Ice Crystals
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  September 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... small, irregular, quasi-spherical ice crystals, with equivalent radii between approximately ... define the shape statistics of the sample ice crystals. The former describes the overall variation ... shapes of small, quasi-spherical ice crystals in cirrus. By using the retrieved shape ...

Article: Light Scattering by Single Natural Ice Crystals
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... scattering intensities (ASIs) of single ice crystals formed in natural conditions were measured ... The microphysical properties of the ice crystals were simultaneously obtained with a ... the scattering properties of numerous ice crystals reveal high variability of the ASIs ...

Article: Enhanced and Oriented Riming of Growing Ice ...
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... in Formvar resin replicas of columnar ice crystals collected in cumulus clouds at -6C ... to preferential collection on growing ice crystals with charge separations between the ... separated charge regions of growing ice crystals results in enhanced riming and increases ...

Article: Collision efficiencies of ice crystals at ...
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... ABSTRACT The efficiencies with which ice crystals at low-intermediate Reynolds numbers ... broadbranch crystals, and columnar ice crystals. Their Reynolds numbers range from ... crystal. The flow fields of the falling ice crystals were determined previously by numerically ...

Article: Microphysical and Optical Properties of Atmospheric Ice ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... summer), over 900 000 digital images of ice crystals were recorded at the South Pole using ... The diamond dust and rosette-shaped ice crystals appear to be very similar in shape to ... and concentration of over 900 000 ice crystals at the South Pole Station (SPS) from ...

Article: On the Occurrence of Hollow Bullet Rosette- and Column-Shaped ...
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... bullet rosette- and column-shaped ice crystals, which can have hollow ends. Bullet rosette-shaped ice crystals are composed of a number of bullets ... hollow portions of column-shaped ice crystals varied from 50% of the length of ...

Article: Atmospheric ice crystals over the Antarctic Plateau ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Falling ice crystals were collected daily on a gridded ... through a microscope. Nine types of ice crystals are identified, which fall into ... about 11 [mu]m. 1. Introduction Ice crystals are nearly always present in the ...