Definition of "hydrometeor" []

• A precipitation product, such as rain, snow, fog, or clouds, formed from the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere. (noun)

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• "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.)"