Abstract
It is demonstrated theoretically that showers may be released by coalescence from shallow cumulus, only 1 km deep, lasting for one hour and having cloud-droplet spectra typical of those measured in clouds formed in clean, maritime air. In clouds formed in more heavily polluted continental air and which have higher concentrations of smaller cloud droplets, the coalescence process is delayed and retarded so that, under otherwise comparable conditions, the time required for shower formation is considerably increased.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v11i2.9297 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 216 - 219
Published on: Jan 1, 1959
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1959 B. J. Mason, published by Stockholm University Press
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