Kardar-parisi-zhang scaling of the height of the convective boundary layer and fractal structure of cumulus cloud fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2672-2675

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000152016     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2672     Document Type: Article

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