A large number of small hydrometeors will reflect the same as one large hydrometeor.

That said, cooling due to hydrometeor fallout is a second proposed formation mechanism.

Hydrometeor loading can also lead to increased high pressure inside of a mesohigh in a thunderstorm.

Hydrometeor loading has a net-negative effect on the atmospheric buoyancy equations.

The measure of variation of hydrometeor density throughout the radar sampling volume.

Any phenomenon which was at some point produced due to condensation or precipitation of moisture within the Earth's atmosphere is known as a hydrometeor.

He is fluent in such obscura as the discrimination of hydrometeor type in mixed-phase clouds.

Hydrometeor loading is the induced drag effects on the atmosphere from a falling hydrometeor.

Discounting the thermodynamical effects of hydrometeor fallout, another mechanism proposes that dynamics of the fallout alone are enough to create the lobes.

The signal returned to the radar will be equivalent in both situations, so a group of small hydrometeors is virtually indistinguishable from one large hydrometeor on the resulting radar image.

While hydrometeor loading is not a main contributor of increased pressure to the mesohigh, and it is a non-hydrostatic process, it can increase the pressure as much as 2 mb.

As the hydrometeor falls toward the surface, the surrounding air provides resistance against the acceleration due to gravity, and the air in the vicinity of the hydrometeor becomes denser.

A meteorologist can determine the difference between one large hydrometeor and a group of small hydrometeors as well as the type of hydrometeor through knowledge of local weather condition contexts.

Hydrometeor: an ensemble of liquid or solid water particles suspended in, or falling through, the atmosphere, blown by the wind from the Earth's surface, or deposited on objects on the ground or in free air.

The problems with this theory are that there are observations of mammatus lobes that do not support the presence of strong subsidence in the lobes, and that it is difficult to separate the processes of hydrometeor fallout and cloud-base subsidence, thus rendering it unclear as to whether either process is occurring.