PowerPoint Presentation - Definitions of Liquid Precipitation

Cloud Droplets to Raindrops

A raindrop is 106 bigger than a cloud droplet
Several days are needed for condensation alone to grow raindrops
Yet, raindrops can form from cloud droplets in a less than one hour
What processes account for such rapid growth?

106 bigger

Ahrens, Fig. 5.15


	Text and caption are self explanatory. A raindrop is 1,000,000 times bigger in volume/mass than a cloud droplet.
	What can cause growth to occur in less than one hour?