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Raindrop Formation

Raindrop Formation is a physical process within the hydrological cycle, categorized under the thermodynamics of precipitation formation, in which liquid water droplets suspended in clouds coalesce and grow through collision-coalescence mechanisms to reach a critical size that allows gravitational settling as precipitation, distinguishing it from alternative hydrometeor growth pathways such as aggregation or riming.

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The relation of raindrop‐size to intensity

Jason Laws, Donald A. Parsons · Transactions American Geophysical Union · 1943 · 931 citations

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Simulation of regional‐scale water and energy budgets: Representation of subgrid cloud and precipitation processes within RegCM

Jeremy S. Pal, Eric E. Small, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2000 · 785 citations · Full text

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Evidence from Tropical Raindrop Spectra of the Origin of Rain from Stratiform versus Convective Clouds

Ali Tokay, David Short · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 1996 · 738 citations

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Aerosol impact on the dynamics and microphysics of deep convective clouds

Daniel Rosenfeld, A. Pokrovsky · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2005 · 725 citations

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The Concept of “Normalized” Distribution to Describe Raindrop Spectra: A Tool for Cloud Physics and Cloud Remote Sensing

J. Testud, Stéphane Oury, Robert A. Black et al. · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 2001 · 669 citations

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    Tsutomu Takahashi

    Kyushu University, Japan

    6 publications · 109 citations

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    Kenneth V. Beard

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 262 citations

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    I. Haag

    Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

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    Roland List

    University of Toronto, Canada

    5 publications · 139 citations

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    K. Bächmann

    Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

    5 publications · 130 citations

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  1. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    12 h-index

    22 publications

    1.8K citations

  2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    2.7K citations

  3. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    31 publications

    947 citations

  5. China Meteorological Administration

    Beijing, China

    9 h-index

    30 publications

    842 citations

  6. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    509 citations

  7. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

    Pune, India

    8 h-index

    32 publications

    998 citations

  8. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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  2. Atmospheric Research

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  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    10 publications · 554 citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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