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
- Wikipedia Graupel [1]
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