The role of droplet spectra for cloud radiative properties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 544, 1997, Pages 2215-2230

  Hatzianastassiou, Nikos ^a,b   Wobrock, Wolfram ^a   Flossmann, Andrea I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud modelling; Optical properties; Parametrization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003985613     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712354404     Document Type: Article

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