Development and characterization of a high-efficiency, aircraft-based axial cyclone cloud water collector

Crosbie, Ewan; Brown, Matthew D.; Shook, Michael; Ziemba, Luke; Moore, Richard H.; Shingler, Taylor; Winstead, Edward; Thornhill, K. Lee; Robinson, Claire; MacDonald, Alexander B.; Dadashazar, Hossein; Sorooshian, Armin; Beyersdorf, Andreas; Eugene, Alexis; Collett Jr., Jeffrey; Straub, Derek; Anderson, Bruce

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5025-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5025-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5025-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

Research article

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05 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 05 Sep 2018

Development and characterization of a high-efficiency, aircraft-based axial cyclone cloud water collector

Ewan Crosbie, Matthew D. Brown, Michael Shook, Luke Ziemba, Richard H. Moore, Taylor Shingler, Edward Winstead, K. Lee Thornhill, Claire Robinson, Alexander B. MacDonald, Hossein Dadashazar, Armin Sorooshian, Andreas Beyersdorf, Alexis Eugene, Jeffrey Collett Jr., Derek Straub, and Bruce Anderson

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RC1: 'Reviewer Baumgardner', Darrel Baumgardner, 20 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to reviewers', Ewan Crosbie, 27 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript amt-2018-119 entitled “Development and characterisation of a high-efficiency, aircraft-based axial cyclone cloud water collector” by Ewan Crosbie and co-atuthors.', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to reviewers', Ewan Crosbie, 27 Jul 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Ewan Crosbie on behalf of the Authors (27 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Aug 2018) by Szymon Malinowski

Short summary

A new aircraft-mounted probe for collecting samples of cloud water has been designed, fabricated, and extensively tested. Cloud drop composition provides valuable insight into atmospheric processes, but separating liquid samples from the airstream in a controlled way at flight speeds has proven difficult. The features of the design have been analysed with detailed numerical flow simulations and the new probe has demonstrated improved efficiency and performance through extensive flight testing.