Fractality in idealized simulations of large-scale tropical cloud systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 838-848

  Yano, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Mc Williams, James C ^a,c   Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000964988     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0838:FIISOL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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