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Due to a relative abundance of smaller drops, ZDR values for warm rain are, on average, smaller than those for stratiform rain of the same reflectivity by a factor of about two (in the logarithmic scale). A ZDR\u2013Ze relation, representing a mean of such relations for warm and stratiform rains, can be utilized to distinguish between warm and stratiform rain types using polarimetric radar measurements. When a mean offset of observational ZDR data is accounted for and reflectivities are greater than 16 dBZ, about 70% of stratiform rains and approximately similar amounts of warm rains are classified correctly using the mean ZDR\u2013Ze relation when applied to averaged data. 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