Sedimentation Rate | Earthdata
Sedimentation Rate. For conditions in the lowest 10-15 km of Earth's atmosphere, the sedimentation (or fall) rate of a spherical cloud particle is given as the characteristic time for it to fall a distance of one atmospheric scale height (about 8 km on Earth) by tau-1fall = (2 rhop mg2 / 9 eta kT ) r2M where eta is the atmospheric dynamic ...