Credit: Image courtesy of Zhu, Z., et al., New insights on the prevalence of drizzle in marine stratocumulus clouds based on a machine learning algorithm applied to radar Doppler spectra." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 11 (2022).
The relative percentage difference in drizzle occurrence for traditional and new detection methods as a function of liquid water path (LWP) for three observational campaigns indicate that drizzle is more common in stratocumulus clouds than thought.