Upper-tropospheric clouds contain ice particles, most of which result from the freezing of liquid droplets. That freezing, it emerges, is far more complicated than had been thought.
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Baker, M. Inside history on droplets. Nature 413, 586–587 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35098178
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