Microphysical structure of winter monsoon cloud clusters.

Abstract

Images of hydrometers in the size range 0.1 to 1.6 mm were obtained by aircraft in precipitating clouds over the South China Sea during Winter MONEX. These observations document for the first time the particle structures and concentrations in tropical cloud clusters above the 0oC level. The particle samples were stratified according to the type of precipitation in which they were observed as determined from airborne radar, and according to particle size and shape. -from Authors