Sentences with phrase «into rain droplets»

«In a heterogeneous spread of droplet sizes, the cloud droplets are more likely to turn into rain droplets, because they're more likely to collide,» Cantrell explains, adding that different - sized droplets fall at different speeds because of Earth's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The New York TimesSARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Fat, cold droplets splashed from the sky as the students struggled into their uniforms: rain pants, boots, mittens and hats.

Originally it was thought that the ethane condenses into droplets, and rains down in the frigid cold of Titan's — 290 degree Fahrenheit atmosphere.

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

A team led by Kaveh Pahlevan at Yale University calculate that as rock vapour rose from Earth's hot, roiling surface, the magnesium oxide it contained would have condensed into droplets and rained back to the surface more readily than the more volatile iron oxide, which could then have mixed into the moon - forming disc (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.10.036).

The theory is that electrified, umbrella - shaped towers can send negatively charged particles into the air, increasing the chance that supercooled droplets will collide with freezing nuclei, thus becoming rain.

Then the researchers took the plants out into the forest, mimicking the natural process by which young leaves are gradually colonized by fungi swirling in the air or contained in water droplets when it rains.

The exhibition features exciting collaborations, a new film based on glass shoes and a large dress suspended from the ceiling, raining down droplets into the gallery.

The increased number of smaller droplets is hypothesized to hinder the formation of rain because more smaller droplets do not collide and coalesce into precipitation as efficiently.

In other words, a rain cloud would hypothetically form when conditions are right in any event, but, when there are more cosmic rays, the cloud would not rain out until later in the day because the smaller initial droplet size would affect how long the droplets take to coalesce into the size necessary for rain to happen or something to that effect.