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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-3404</article-id>
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<article-title>Design of a Cloud Chamber and Quantitative Seeding Experiments for Warm and Cold Clouds</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Luo</surname>
<given-names>Jiayi</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Haopeng</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Yuan</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Hao</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of China Meteorological Administration Atmospheric Sounding, School of Electrical Engineering, Chengdu  University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>College of Resources and Environment, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>22</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Jiayi Luo et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Cloud chambers provide controlled thermodynamic environments for investigating cloud microphysical processes and their responses to aerosol perturbations. In this study, we developed a cloud chamber system for controlled observations of cloud microphysics and weather-modification processes. The system comprises two vessels with volumes of 2.7 and 9.0 m&amp;sup3;. It provides adjustable temperature and pressure over approximate ranges of &amp;minus;40 to 40 &amp;deg;C and 30 to 1110 hPa, respectively, and is designed to regulate relative humidity across nearly the full 0 to 100 % range. The measurement system covers particles from submicron aerosols to cloud and precipitation particles, with approximate size ranges of 10&amp;ndash;700 nm for submicron aerosols and 2&amp;ndash;1550 &amp;mu;m for cloud droplets, larger hydrometeors, and ice particles. The chamber performance was evaluated using temperature-control, pressure-control, and humidity-control tests. Representative paired background&amp;ndash;seeded experiments were then conducted in chamber B under warm-cloud and cold-cloud conditions. In the warm-cloud experiment, the introduction of 10 g of hygroscopic seeding powder increased the aerosol number concentration and was accompanied by a rapid increase in 3&amp;ndash;10 &amp;mu;m droplets. Relative to the background case, the seeded case had a lower concentration of droplets &amp;ge;12 &amp;mu;m, with the mean concentration decreasing from 1357 to 478 cm⁻&amp;sup3;, and showed shorter cloud persistence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The relative-humidity decline rate was higher in the seeded case than in the background case, increasing from 0.47 to 0.75 % RH min⁻&amp;sup1;, consistent with enhanced water-vapour uptake after the introduction of hygroscopic particles. In the cold-cloud experiment, 0.5 g of AgI was ignited, and the resulting AgI-containing combustion aerosol increased the submicron particle concentration to above 2 &amp;times; 10⁴ cm⁻&amp;sup3;. The AgI-seeded case showed identifiable ice-crystal signatures together with a rapid decrease in liquid-droplet concentration. The total droplet concentration reached a short-lived peak of approximately 2.1 &amp;times; 10&amp;sup3; cm⁻&amp;sup3; and decreased to less than one-third of this peak within about 1 min, while droplets larger than 10 &amp;mu;m were strongly reduced within about 2 min. These representative experiments show that the chamber system can support controlled observations of aerosol, droplet, and ice-particle responses associated with warm-cloud and cold-cloud seeding materials.</p>
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