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RAINFALL intensity within clouds may be greatly increased by the production of satellite drops when raindrops collide, and this process could explain the extremely high rates of rainfall development reported in certain clouds1,2. We have set out to test this possibility by laboratory experiments.
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BRAZIER-SMITH, P., JENNINGS, S. & LATHAM, J. Accelerated Rates of Rainfall. Nature 232, 112–113 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232112b0
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