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Graupel (/ˈɡraʊpəl/; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩] ), also
called soft hail or
hominy snow or
granular snow or snow pellets, is
precipitation that
forms when supercooled...
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surface temperatures.
Unlike other forms of
water ice precipitation, such as
graupel (which is made of rime ice), ice
pellets (which are
smaller and translucent)...
- gets
referred to as
graupel. The
frozen droplets on the
surface of
rimed crystals are hard to
resolve and the
topography of a
graupel particle is not easy...
- Rain and snow
mixed ("sleet" in
Commonwealth usage), snow, ice pellets,
graupel and hail.
Precipitation occurs when a
portion of the
atmosphere becomes...
- small, hard,
translucent balls of ice. Ice
pellets are
different from
graupel ("soft hail"),
which is made of
frosty white opaque rime, and from a mixture...
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precipitation include snow, ice crystals, ice
pellets (sleet), hail, and
graupel.
Their respective intensities are
classified either by rate of precipitation...
- and
graupel (soft hail). The
updraft carries the super-cooled
cloud droplets and very
small ice
crystals upward. At the same time, the
graupel, which...
- the ****ulonimbus the
water vapor becomes ice crystals, such as snow and
graupel, the
interaction of
which can lead to hail and to
lightning formation,...
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depending on
lower atmosphere temperatures may
become rain, sleet, or
graupel.
Accretion is the
basis for
cloud formation and can also be seen as water...
- top of the ****ulonimbus
cloud is
usually quite low. In
addition to snow,
graupel or hail may fall as well. The
heavy snowfall tends to
muffle the sound...
