Graupel

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

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

Graupel (also called small hail, soft hail, or snow pellets; METAR code: GS) refers to precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake, forming a 2–5 mm ball of rime; the snowflake acts as a nucleus of condensation in this process. Graupel is the German word for this meteorological phenomenon.

[edit] Also see

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

[edit] Reference

1. Wikipedia Graupel [1]

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