High-resolution lidar observations of sedimentation-induced size sorting of droplets near a laboratory cloud top

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Number 50, December 2025.
SignificanceOur understanding of the microphysical properties of clouds at the centimeter scale remains incomplete due to the limited number of observations. Here, high-resolution lidar observations of clouds in a convection chamber show that although the cloud is homogeneous…