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  2. Raindrop size distribution - Wikipedia

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    = 4.1 R −0.21 mm −1 (equivalent to 41 R −0.21 cm −1 in the reference [4]), R being the rainrate in stratiform precipitation in millimeters per hour; D = raindrop diameter in mm The units of N 0 are sometimes simplified to cm −4 but this removes the information that this value is calculated per cubic meter of air.

  3. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Cyclones. Extratropical cyclone. European windstorms; Australian East Coast Low "Medicane", Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones Polar cyclone; Tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, typhoon, or just "cyclone"

  4. Precipitation types - Wikipedia

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    Typical precipitation types associated with a warm front advancing over frigid air Precipitation in the form of a sunshower. In meteorology, the different types of precipitation often include the character, formation, or phase of the precipitation which is falling to ground level. There are three distinct ways that precipitation can occur.

  5. Freezing rain - Wikipedia

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    [4] Freezing rain develops when falling snow encounters a layer of warm air aloft, typically around the 800 mbar (800 hPa; 80 kPa) level, causing the snow to melt and become rain. As the rain continues to fall, it passes through a layer of subfreezing air just above the surface and cools to a temperature below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F or 273 K).

  6. United States rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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    Average precipitation. The characteristics of United States rainfall climatology differ significantly across the United States and those under United States sovereignty. . Summer and early fall bring brief, but frequent thundershowers and tropical cyclones which create a wet summer and drier winter in the eastern Gulf and lower Eas

  7. Ice pellets - Wikipedia

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    Ice pellets form when a layer of above-freezing air is located between 1,500 and 3,000 meters (5,000 and 10,000 ft) above the ground, with sub-freezing air both above and below it. This causes the partial or complete melting of any snowflakes falling through the warm layer (the French term for sleet, neige fondue , literally means "melted snow ...

  8. Precipitation - Wikipedia

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    The inner cylinder is filled by 2.5 cm (0.98 in) of rain, with overflow flowing into the outer cylinder. Plastic gauges have markings on the inner cylinder down to 1 ⁄ 4 mm (0.0098 in) resolution, while metal gauges require use of a stick designed with the appropriate 1 ⁄ 4 mm (0.0098 in) markings. After the inner cylinder is filled, the ...

  9. Water-level task - Wikipedia

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    It is difficult to give the precise fraction of men and women that fail the water-level task, since this is sensitive to the methodological details of how the task is presented and scored, but the finding that men perform at a higher level has been robustly confirmed.