Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A precipitation product, such as rain, snow, fog, or clouds, formed from the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; in the plural, all the aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, hail, snow, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Rain ,snow and otherprecipitation products of thecondensation ofatmospheric water vapour
Etymologies
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Examples
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A google search for Chungu Lu and Browning and further digging found this: Scaling the microphysics equations and analyzing the variability of hydrometeor production rates in a controlled parameter space, a pdf file.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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Scaling the microphysics equations and analyzing the variability of hydrometeor production rates in a controlled parameter space.
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The bounceoff rate is determined with a coagulation scheme that conserves volume and volume concentration exactly among multiple hydrometeor distributions and multiple sizes per distribution.
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Size-resolved coagulation kernels for aerosol-hydrometeor coagulation include thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, electric charge, gravitational collection, turbulent inertial motion, turbulent shear, Brownian motion, and convective Brownian diffusion enhancement.
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Each size bin of each liquid, ice, and graupel hydrometeor distributions contains a core of black carbon, if present, for optical calculations.
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Aqueous chemistry is solved within aerosol particles and hydrometeor particles simultaneously.
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Hydrometeor-hydrometeor coagulation also involves coagulation of the individual aerosol components within each hydrometeor size bin.
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The solution method for liquid and ice growth is unconditionally stable, mass conserving between the gas and multiple aerosol bins and multiple hydrometeor bins, and is noniterative.
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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 2006
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Size-resolved coagulation kernels for hydrometeor-hydrometeor coagulation include thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, electric charge, gravitational collection, turbulent inertial motion, turbulent shear, Brownian motion, and convective Brownian diffusion enhancement.
qms commented on the word hydrometeor
Now "damp" would work sans explanation;
More pompously there's "precipitation."
But hear my confiteor:
I say "hydrometeor"
For pleasure of nerdy obfuscation.
July 27, 2015