And cloud formation

The mechanism of Self-organized criticality, a concept first introduced by Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld [bak87a], may possibly provide a fundamental link between such temporal scale invariant phenomena and phenomena exhibiting a spatial scale invariance - familiar examples of which are given by fractal coastlines, mountain landscapes and cloud formations [mandel82],... 

Pueschel, R. F., K. G. Snetsinger, P. Hamill, J. K. Goodman, and M. P. McCormick, Nitric Acid in Polar Stratospheric Clouds Similar Temperature of Nitric Acid Condensation and Cloud Formation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 429-432 (1990). 

It makes us appreciate the beauty in a wide range of the scenery such as waterfalls, snow scenes and cloud formations. 

Aerosols are, by their nature, multiphase, and equilibrium thermodynamics provides constraints and limiting conditions on particle interaction with the surrounding gas. Thermodynamic factors play a major role in atmospheric nucleation processes including fog and cloud formation. They are also important in the synthesis of small solid particles, affecting particle size and crystalline properties. 

Hallett, J., Hudson, J. G., and Rogers, C. F. (1989) Characterization of combustion aerosols for haze and cloud formation. Aerosol Sci. Technoi, 10, 70-83. 

Glindemann, D., M. Edwards and O. Schrems (2004) Phosphine and methylphosphine production by simulated lightning - a study for the volatile phosphorous cycle and cloud formation in the earth atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment 38, 6867-6874... 

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability arises because of shear along an interface between two different fluids. Being related to turbulence and transition phenomena, it also describes the onset of ocean wave formation, jetting instabilities, and cloud formation. In microfluidics, it is commonly seen in fluid-fluid interfaces. It is not to be confused with Rayleigh-Taylor or Rayleigh instability ( Rayleigh-Taylor instability). 

Fig. 1 Schematic of surface-active organic material in a deliquesced aerosol particle. Surface organics can potentially inhibit the uptake of gas-phase species to the particle, enhance ice nncle-ation, and depress particle surface tension, with important implications for aerosol heterogeneous chemistry and cloud formation...

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