仪表等级飞行员理论培训stage3-214AWXFACTORS分析.ppt

Drizzle - .5mmm Rainshowers preciptiation that starts, changes intensity, and suddenly stops. Ice pellets formed from freezing of raindrops or from freezing of snowflakes(partially melted). Freezing rain at higher altitudes Black ice comes from freezing rain Hail .2 inches and more, produced in strong updrafts of cumuliform clouds * Two exceptions. Very low stratus and fog are known to produce precipitation that is very light and composed of very small droplets. In the tropics large condensation nuclei (salt) from the oceans result in some large cloud droplets. In middle and high latitudes es