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Title: Heterogeneous nucleation and its relationship to precipitation type. Technical memo

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:80480

The purpose of this study is to present important elements of cloud microphysics that will be useful to the operational meteorologist in determining precipitation type. Synoptic-scale environments and vertical atmospheric structures of cases, where freezing precipitation occurred, will be examined. Furthermore, only cases in which the entire depth of the troposphere was below freezing are studied. The absences of lower tropospheric warm layers (above freezing) suggest that the primary atmospheric process that influenced precipitation type was heterogeneous nucleation rather than melting.

Research Organization:
National Weather Service, Detroit, MI (United States). Forecast Office
OSTI ID:
80480
Report Number(s):
PB-95-217170/XAB; NOAA-TM-NWS-CR-108; TRN: 51992537
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English