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THE only available set of laboratory measurements of mass growth rates of freely falling ice crystals, as a function of both time and temperature, used growth times <50 s (ref. 1). We report here results of laboratory measurements on freely falling ice crystals (average mass, m̄) grown in simulated cloud conditions, as a function of temperature for growth times of 60±3 and 100±5 s, and from these we have calculated the corresponding mass growth rates.
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MICHAELI, G., GALLILY, I. Growth rates of freely falling ice crystals. Nature 259, 110 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259110a0
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