Review
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Updraft velocity and raindrop size
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Modulates time a raindrop suspended in cloud
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Ice Crystal Process
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SVP over ice is less than over SC water droplets
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Accretion-Splintering-Aggregation
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Accretion-
supercooled droplets freeze on
contact with ice crystals
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Splintering-
big ice crystals fragment into many
smaller ones
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Aggregation-
ice crystals adhere on snowflakes,
which upon melting, become raindrops!