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Nature Physics 5, 624 - 625 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1385
Subject Category: Fluid dynamics
Droplet dynamics: Raindrops large and small
Alexander B. Kostinski1 & Raymond A. Shaw1
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Alexander B. Kostinski and Raymond A. Shaw are in the Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA.
e-mail: alex_kostinski@mtu.edu; e-mail: rashaw@mtu.edu
Abstract
Rain hits the ground in drops of different sizes, but the mechanism that produces this distribution is unclear. Could it be that all we need to know is contained in the death of a single drop?
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