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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

  1. 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


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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