A high-resolution Doppler radar has the ability to detect individual hydrometeors, such as atmospheric raindrops, over 0.5 mm in diameter research led by the Naval Research Laboratory has revealed.

Solar raindrops, tiny streams of plasma in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, have long fascinated scientists studying the Sun’s ...

which then settled through the melting layer and contributed to the population of individual raindrops observed in the lower portion of the cloud by the MCR’s high-resolution waveform. The location of ...