Abstract
We study the absorption of infrasonic waves when they are propagating in cloud media. In this case, the main mechanism of absorption is the relaxation processes associated with vapor-drop phase transitions caused by infrasonic waves. For frequencies comparable to the inverse relaxation time, the acoustic waves in a cloud medium were shown to have a noticeable dispersion. We derive an expression for the frequency-dependent effective adiabatic index linking the oscillations of pressure and density in the wave, the dispersion equation, and the expression for the absorption coefficient. For typical values of cloud parameters, the absorption coefficient was estimated to be around 0.1 km−1. We discuss observation data which indirectly confirm that clouds can considerably absorb infrasonic waves.
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