Accretion

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Graupel is a form of frozen precipitation consisting of snowflakes or ice crystals and supercooled water droplets frozen together.

Accretion is an atmospheric science term for when an ice crystal or snowflake hits a supercooled liquid droplet, which then freeze together.

This increases the size of the water particle. A common example of this that is visible to people is graupel.

Also see

• Snow crystals
• Hail
• Snowflake Gallery
• Ice
• Snow Pellets
• Weather
• Atmosphere
• Ice pellets
• Precipitation
• Drizzle
• Firnification

Reference

Wikipedia Accretion[1]

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