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Misrepresentation Of Wintertime: The Structure Of A Snow

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One common misrepresentation of wintertime is the structure of a snowflake. Snowflakes are most likely depicted and drawn as having eight sides, but in actuality snowflakes have six sides which is something that not many people are aware of. Proving this fact can be as simple as collecting a sample of falling snow and viewing it under a microscope. The basis of a snowflake, and its hexagonal shape, is etched down to what holds it together: ice crystals. The atmosphere contains a plethora of ice crystals which can be constructed in many different forms like plate crystals and pencil crystals. Whether as snowflakes, ice pellets, fog or cirrus clouds, ice crystals have a significant contribution to the atmosphere and weather, no matter what the season is.
A plethora of research has been completed on the subject, broadening our knowledge on the interactions of ice crystals with the surrounding environment. Kärcher et al. (2014) conducted a study to see how ice crystals in cirrus clouds were affected by supersaturation. The cirrus clouds were broken down into different categories based on how they responded to …show more content…

(2011) exemplified in their study, Ono (1970) focused on a specific region in which to retrieve ice crystal samples from clouds in order to study the growth rate. The clouds sought out for the study were in areas with the temperature varying between -2°C and -32°C. With a variety of clouds to choose from, over 10,000 samples of ice crystals were collected and examined to look for any kind of similarity between ice crystals found in the sampled clouds. A connection was discovered between the growth rate of ice crystals at the defined temperature range and the ice crystal structure. The study found that certain types of ice crystals relied heavily on how cold the temperature was in order to grow, and examples were shown between columnar ice crystals and plane ice crystals depicting their size after being exposed to frigid

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