hydrometeor
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun A precipitation product, such as rain, snow, fog, or clouds, formed from the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere.
Examples
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They fall into three main groups — latent heat losses (through evaporation/condensation), sensible heat losses (by conduction/convection), and hydrometeor losses (from rain, snow, hail, sleet, graupel, etc.)
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit
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Andrew Weaver’s model will include modelling individual hydrometeor particles, and Michael Mann will be writing another overview of climate science claiming that human-induced cooling has overturned human-induced warming and his tree ring proxies prove it.
Note
The word 'hydrometeor' comes from the roots 'hydro-' (water) and 'meteor'.
