Tropical convective clouds with visible rain shafts (IMAGE)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tropical convective clouds with visible rain shafts

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Tropical convective clouds with visible rain shafts. Their fuzzy appearance indicates that most cloud droplets have coalesced into raindrops, reducing total droplet surface area available for condensation and creating conditions in which high vapor supersaturation is expected in updrafts.

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Photo taken from the nose video camera of the NOAA-P3 aircraft.

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