General Lab Information

Publications

  1. Shaw, R. A., Ovchinnikov, M., Sedlacek, A. J., Yang, F., Anderson, J., Bakri, Z., Beard, G., Bois, C., Cantrell, W., Chandrakar, K. K., Daniels, G., Sadi, H. F., Flagan, R. C., Fuentes, J. D., Gogos, G., Kaufman, G., Kim, K., Kollias, P., Krueger, S. K., et al. (2026). A concept of a convection-cloud chamber to study aerosol-cloud-drizzle interactions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-25-0113.1
  2. Yang, F., Sua, Y. M., Zheng, Z., Anderson, J., Sadi, H. F., Yeom, J. M., Singh, S. P., Hou, P., Cantrell, W. H., Lewis, E. R., Kostinski, A. B., Shaw, R. A. (2025). High-resolution lidar observations of sedimentation-induced size sorting of droplets near a laboratory cloud top. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(50), Article e2505421122 https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505421122
  3. Wang, A., Schmalfuß, S., Chandrakar, K. K., Kia, H. Z., Yang, F., Ovchinnikov, M., Shaw, R. A., Choi, Y. (2025). An intercomparison of wall fluxes in a turbulent thermal convection chamber: Direct numerical simulations and wall-modeled large-eddy simulations enhanced by machine learning. Physics of Fluids, 37(4) https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0264004
  4. Zhu, Z., Yang, F., Luke, E., Rosky, E., Lamer, K., Kollias, P. (2024). THz Radar Observations of Hydrometeors in a Spray Chamber. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(12) https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024gl109627
  5. Yang, F., Sadi, H. F., Shaw, R. A., Hoffmann, F., Hou, P., Wang, A., Ovchinnikov, M. (2024). Microphysics regimes due to haze-cloud interactions: cloud oscillation and cloud collapse. EGUsphere https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1693
  6. Zhu, Zeen, Yang, Fan;Kollias, Pavlos;Shaw, Raymond A.;Kostinski, Alex B.;Krueger, Steve;Lamer, Katia;Allwayin, Nithin;Oue, Mariko (2024). Detection of small drizzle droplets in a large cloud chamber using ultrahigh-resolution radar. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17(3), 1133-1143 https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1133-2024
  7. Yang, F., Ovchinnikov, M., Thomas, S., Khain, A., McGraw, R., Shaw, R. A., & Vogelmann, A. M. (2022). Large-eddy simulations of a convection cloud chamber: Sensitivity to bin microphysics and advection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002895

About the Cloud Chamber

The Nephos Cloud Chamber is designed to create and study clouds under carefully controlled conditions. By recreating atmospheric environments inside the programmable chamber, scientists can observe cloud formation and evolution in ways that are difficult to achieve in the natural atmosphere.