cloud microphysics

From Glossary of Meteorology
Cloud processes (growth, evaporation, etc.) taking place on the scale of the individual aerosol or precipitation particle as opposed to the scale of the visual cloud.


See cloud physics.

An aggregation of sufficiently many atoms or molecules that it can be assigned macroscopic properties such as volume, density, pressure, and temperature.

  1. Regular markings on an instrument used to allow the reading of the measured quantity or setting.
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