cloud droplet

collocation in English

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cloud
noun
uk
/klaʊd/us
/klaʊd/
a grey or white mass in the sky, made up of very small floating drops ...
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droplet
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdrɒp.lət/us
/ˈdrɑːp.lət/
a small drop ...
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(Definition ofcloudanddropletfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Size resolved measurements ofclouddropletdeposition velocity to a forest canopy using an eddy correlation technique.
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These aerosols act as cloud condensation nuclei and increaseclouddropletnumber, which in turn elevate the liquid water content of clouds and cloud area.
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Studies also indicate that the effectiveclouddropletradius is larger over oceans than over ground by 15%-20%.
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An increase inclouddropletnumber due to the introduction of aerosol acts to reduce theclouddroplet size, as the same amount of water is divided between more droplets.
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For example,clouddroplet, usually with large sizes and thus very smaller ngstrm exponent (nearly zero), is spectrally neutral, which means, e.g., the optical depth does not change with wavelength.
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Instability produced by hyperelectrification of cloud droplets.
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Smaller drops are called cloud droplets, and their shape is spherical.
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Drizzle occurs when the humidity of fog attains 100% and the minute cloud droplets begin to coalesce into larger droplets.
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This is where aerosol particles get into cloud droplets or cloud ice crystals through working as cloud nuclei, or being captured by them through collision.
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An explanation could be the evaporation of the cloud droplets when precipitation drops are formed.
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The process is called "riming" when super-cooled cloud droplets attach to ice crystals in the formation of graupel.
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This would imply that the dry, unsaturated, environmental air would be entrained throughout the cloud before it would start to evaporate the cloud droplets.
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The remaining reddened sunlight can then be scattered by cloud droplets and other relatively large particles to light up the horizon red and orange.
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Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases.
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At high concentrations, when the cloud droplets is small, the supersaturation required is smaller than without the presence of a nucleus.
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Under persistent condensation or deposition, cloud droplets or snowflakes form, which precipitate when they reach a critical mass.
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They begin as snow crystals which develop when microscopic supercooled cloud droplets freeze.
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If enough water vapor condenses into cloud droplets, these droplets may become large enough to fall to the ground as precipitation.
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It is also the major source of nuclei for the condensation of moisture from vapor into cloud droplets.
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