Liquid Water and Homogeneous Ice Nucleation
in Tropical Convection
Importance
• LWC=0.5 g/m3, 15m diam. droplets• ----km-1
• IWC=1 g/m3, 1 mm graupel, 0.4 g/cm3
m-1
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• Graupel collects cloud droplets m-1