Time-lapse Microtomography to access the 3D Growth of Snowflakes

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The controlled growth of atmospheric snow crystals presently resists the in situ tomographic approach due to several reasons: 1) the difficult temperature and humidity regulation, 2) the rapid phenomena involved, 3) the tiny structure of some crystals, and 4) the practical need of pre-selecting a unique crystal among several growing seeds. These 4 items are major obstacles to access the evolution of such structures in 3D. We found solutions to most of these difficulties and could recently obtain a short series of crystal growth using our cold cell CellDyM3 on BM18 beamline. Based on this preliminary result, we propose to grow at least 2 very distinct types of crystals using CellDyM3 and to monitor their growth using time-lapse tomography. Such an experiment would allow to access a lot of geometrical parameters that cannot be commonly accessed with 2D optical measurements, and to provide reference growth evolutions for the evaluation of 3D ice crystal growth models.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-1915447436
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/1915447436
Provenance
Creator Paul TAFFOREAU ORCID logo; Jacques ROULLE; Benoît LAURENT; Jaianth VIJAYAKUMAR; Ekaterina FLIN ORCID logo; Neige CALONNE; Frédéric FLIN ORCID logo; Lisa BOUVET ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2027
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields