An example of supercooled drizzle drops formed through a collision-coalescence process

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2250-2260

  Cober, Stewart G ^a   Strapp, J Walter ^a   Isaac, George A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLET; DRIZZLE; MICROPHYSICS; PRECIPITATION; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0030368892     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<2250:AEOSDD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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