Fig. 3
From: Ejection of marine microplastics by raindrops: a computational and experimental study
Diameter and maximum altitude of droplets detected within 10ms after impact of 100 4mm diameter raindrops. The size of the circles indicates the number of microplastic particles enclosed in each droplet. The lines indicate constant initial vertical velocity. Tiniest droplets below 0.23mm diameter (gray area) cannot be resolved in the simulation. The color represents the approximate time the droplet separated from the crown rim. The maximum altitude of ejected droplets decreases over time