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... The basic difficulty in determining how thunderclouds become electrified lies in the fact that they are large, complex, and short-lived phenomena that need to be examined both as a whole and in detail to understand how they function. The electrical processes are intimately related to the cloud dynamics or motions and to the microphysics of the cloud, namely, to the populations and interactions of the precipitation, cloud droplets, ice crystals, and other particles that make up the cloud.
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  • electrical processes
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