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D. Grosvenor

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How Many Water Droplets Are in a Cloud?

by D. Grosvenor 5 July 20183 February 2022

The number of droplets in clouds affects how much of the Sun’s warming energy is reflected back to space. But how reliable are our attempts to count them?

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