adhesion efficiency

From Glossary of Meteorology

In cloud physics, the fraction of ice particles colliding with a collector ice particle that actually adheres to, or aggregates with, the collector; or, in the case of the riming process, the fraction of water drops colliding with a collector ice particle that actually adheres (freezes) to the collector.

An aggregation of sufficiently many atoms or molecules that it can be assigned macroscopic properties such as volume, density, pressure, and temperature.

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