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In Chapter 8, we have shown that air contains a great variety of solid and liquid particles other than water drops and ice particles. We also know from our discussions in Chapters 6 and 9 that a considerable fraction of those serve as cloud condensation and ice forming nuclei, whereby they become incorporated into the cloud drops, raindrops and snow crystals. This removal process is usually referred to as nucleation scavenging. From our discussion in Chapters 10 and 14, we further expect that, in addition to nucleation scavenging, aerosol particles will be removed from the atmosphere by collision with cloud drops, raindrops and ice particles.
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Pruppacher, H., Klett, J. (2010). Cloud Chemistry. In: Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48100-0_17
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