Outcome regimes of binary raindrop collisions

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-399

  Testik, Firat Y ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounce; Breakup; Coalescence; Precipitation microphysics; Raindrop collision; Regime diagram

Indexed keywords

BOUNCE; BREAKUP; PRECIPITATION MICROPHYSICS; RAINDROP COLLISION; REGIME DIAGRAM;

MINING; PHYSICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

COALESCENCE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ENERGY;

EID: 70349281425     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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