Single-drop fragmentation determines size distribution of raindrops

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Secondary breakup of a drop at moderate Weber numbers (2015, background): “Similarly, a rain drop falling under gravitational field through air fragments into smaller droplets which may further undergo multiple coalescence and breakups [1].”
Experimental statistics of droplet trajectory and air flow during aerodynamic fragmentation of liquid drops (2012, background): “Such processes occur naturally during the falling of rain drops in the atmosphere (Villermaux and Bossa, 2009) and are applied in industry for the purpose of increasing liquid dispersal, enhancing evaporation, and reducing drop sizes (Nasar et al., 2002).”
On erosion issues associated with the leading edge of wind turbine blades (2013, background): “At and above this maximum diameter the droplet geometry may become unstable and fragment [41].”
A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges (2015, background): “…with more physical intuition, two-moment schemes remain highly tunable and many depicted processes such as drop-drop interactions and breakup [Villermaux and Bossa, 2009; Giangrande et al., 2012; Morrison et al., 2012; Prat and Barros, 2009], the formation of ice particles, and cloud…”