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Organic molecules help fatten cloud-making water droplets

Better size estimates could help improve climate forecasts

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IN THE CLOUDS  Many of the water droplets that make up clouds get a size boost from carbon-containing molecules that assemble on the droplets’ exterior, new research suggests.

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By Thomas Sumner

- More than 2 years ago

For many cloud-forming water droplets, it’s what’s on the outside that matters.