Do all raindrops fall at terminal speed?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Montero Martínez, Guillermo ^a   Kostinski, Alexander B ^b   Shaw, Raymond A ^b   García García, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; BREAK-UP; MAXIMUM VALUES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAINDROP SIZES; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL RATES; SIZE DEPENDENCE; SIZE MEASUREMENTS;

SPEED;

DROPS;

DROPLET; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; SIZE; VELOCITY;

EID: 68949136562     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037111     Document Type: Article

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