The grains in seasonal snow undergo rapid and radical transformations in size, shape, and
cohesion. These grain characteristics affect all of the basic properties of snow. Snow is …

The purpose of this work is to examine the properties of the transition layer (quasi-liquid
layer, QLL) on the surface of an ice crystal at temperatures just below its bulk melting point …

The Lennard‐Jones fcc (111) and (100) crystal–melt interfaces have been simulated by
molecular dynamics with a view to understanding their thermodynamic and structural …

Snow cover crystals must be classified in a physically meaningful way. Previous
classification systems are not sufficiently detailed or not based on sufficient knowledge of the …

Polyhedral ice crystals are formed at a few% supersaturation in order to clarify
experimentally the growth mechanism and the habit change of ice crystals growing in low air …

The most important results obtained in the theory of surface premelting of crystals are briefly
discussed on the basis of the vibration-positional model, the quasiliquid layer model, the …

ABOVE a characteristic temperature, the free energy required to form a step on the surface
of a growing crystal may fall to zero; the surface then undergoes a transition from smooth …

Experimental observation of the equilibrium roughening transition of the high temperature
phase of Ag 2 S (bcc structure) is reported. The roughening temperatures for {110} and …

A generalized version of the terrace-step-kink (TSK) model is introduced to study in detail
the shape of a crystal near the facet edge. The model is analyzed by the transfer-matrix …

By observing the crystal shapes and kinetics of ice Ih growing at high pressures from the
melt, it was found that the prism {101¯ 0} faces undergo a roughening transition at …