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Graupel (/ˈɡraʊpəl/; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩] ), also
called soft hail or snow pellets, is
precipitation that
forms when
supercooled water droplets in air are...
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precipitation include snow, ice crystals, ice
pellets (sleet), hail, and
graupel.
Their respective intensities are
classified either by rate of precipitation...
- gets
referred to as
graupel. The
frozen droplets on the
surface of
rimed crystals are hard to
resolve and the
topography of a
graupel particle is not easy...
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graupel (soft hail). The
updraft carries the super-cooled
cloud droplets and very
small ice
crystals upward. At the same time, the
graupel, which...
- small, hard,
translucent balls of ice. Ice
pellets are
different from
graupel ("soft hail"),
which is made of
frosty white opaque rime, and from a mixture...
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forms of
precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets,
graupel and hail.
Precipitation occurs when a
portion of the
atmosphere becomes...
- the ****ulonimbus the
water vapor becomes ice crystals, such as snow and
graupel, the
interaction of
which can lead to hail and to
lightning formation,...
- top of the ****ulonimbus
cloud is
usually quite low. In
addition to snow,
graupel or hail may fall as well. The
heavy snowfall tends to
muffle the sound...
- and size (D) of
reflectors (hydrometeors),
which includes rain, snow,
graupel, and hail. Very
sensitive radars can also
measure the
reflectivity of cloud...
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persistent and
often of
mixed precipitation such as rain-snow
mixes and
graupel;
while summer precipitation is
generally abrupt and sporadic. Cloudiness...
