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The Complex Physics of Clouds

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” o’er fields of scientific inquiry, with nary a precise understanding, of all my complex processes. Or words to that effect ( apologies to Wordsworth ).  

You might forgive atmospheric scientists for having their heads in the clouds. After all, seemingly simple, fluffy clouds actually involve a complex interplay of fluid dynamics, turbulence, convection and mixing that changes depending on whether one looks at larger or smaller scales.  

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