Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A precipitation product, such as rain, snow, fog, or clouds, formed from the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; in the plural, all the aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, hail, snow, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. Rain, snow and other precipitation products of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
Etymologies
- hydro- + meteor (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Scaling the microphysics equations and analyzing the variability of hydrometeor production rates in a controlled parameter space.”
“A google search for Chungu Lu and Browning and further digging found this: Scaling the microphysics equations and analyzing the variability of hydrometeor production rates in a controlled parameter space, a pdf file.”
“They fall into three main groups — latent heat losses (through evaporation/condensation), sensible heat losses (by conduction/convection), and hydrometeor losses (from rain, snow, hail, sleet, graupel, etc.)”
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit
“Hydrometeor-hydrometeor coagulation also involves coagulation of the individual aerosol components within each hydrometeor size bin.”
“Size-resolved coagulation kernels for aerosol-hydrometeor coagulation include thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, electric charge, gravitational collection, turbulent inertial motion, turbulent shear, Brownian motion, and convective Brownian diffusion enhancement.”
“The solution method for liquid and ice growth is unconditionally stable, mass conserving between the gas and multiple aerosol bins and multiple hydrometeor bins, and is noniterative.”
“Size-resolved coagulation kernels for hydrometeor-hydrometeor coagulation include thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, electric charge, gravitational collection, turbulent inertial motion, turbulent shear, Brownian motion, and convective Brownian diffusion enhancement.”
“Aqueous chemistry is solved within aerosol particles and hydrometeor particles simultaneously.”
“The bounceoff rate is determined with a coagulation scheme that conserves volume and volume concentration exactly among multiple hydrometeor distributions and multiple sizes per distribution.”
“Each size bin of each liquid, ice, and graupel hydrometeor distributions contains a core of black carbon, if present, for optical calculations.”
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