In the warm-rain process, the larger droplets of a cloud fall faster than the small ones, collide with them and merge, growing as they fall. In the ice-crystal process, in the part of a cloud colder than where ice crystals and supercooled droplets (liquid below ) are mixed, the crystals grow by taking the vapour that the droplets evaporate; they fall as snowflakes, and melt into raindrops if the air below is warm.
Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary
What is Warm-rain process; ice-crystal process?
Also known as: warm-rain process · ice-crystal process