Abstract
Water clouds consist of small liquid droplets suspended in air. Cloud droplets have a spherical shape in most cases, although particles of other shapes can exist due works quite well (see Fig. 1.1).
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Kokhanovsky, A.A. (2006). Microphysics and Geometry of Clouds. In: Cloud Optics. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4020-2_1
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