Familiar yet strange: Water's 'split personality' revealed by computer model
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 19:31
in Earth & Climate
Using computer models, researchers found that as water freezes it takes on a sort of split personality wherein, at very cold temperatures and above a certain pressure, it may spontaneously split into two liquid forms. Finding this dual nature could lead to a better understanding of how water behaves in high-altitude clouds, which could improve the predictive ability of current weather and climate models.