Nucleation of Water. From Fundamental Science to Atmospheric and Additional Applications

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Thermodynamic and statistical mechanical concepts
3. Properties of water and ice
4. Homogeneous gas-liquid nucleation theory
5. Homogeneous gas-liquid nucleation experiments
6. Simulation techniques
7. Homogeneous nucleation of water vapor
8. Binary and multicomponent gas-liquid nucleation
9. Heterogeneous nucleation of water vapor
10. Cloud drop nucleation
11. Ice nucleation
12. Bubble nucleation

Authors

Ari Laaksonen Chief Scientist, Finnish Meteorological Institute, and Professor of Environmental Physics, University of Eastern Finland. Dr. Ari Laaksonen received his Ph.D from the University of Helsinki in 1992, worked as a visiting scholar in the University of Chicago from 1993-95, and became a professor in 1998. He has supervised 23 Ph.D. students, and published over 270 peer reviewed scientific articles on nucleation, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and on climate research. His scientific work has lately focused on heterogeneous nucleation of water and ice on different types of surfaces. He was nominated as a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher for the past seven years. Jussi Malila University Lecturer, Docent, University of Oulu. Jussi Malila received his MSc in environmental physics in 2008 and PhD in applied physics in 2016, both from the University of Eastern Finland. His scientific interests are in nucleation and phase equilibrium studies related to atmospheric systems, including atmospheric new particle formation and aerosol--cloud interactions, and in climate and sustainability education.