Application of a quasispectral cloud parameterization scheme to a mesoscale snowfall event over the Baltic Sea

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 375-384

  Devantier, R ^a   Raabe, A ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD PHYSICS; CLOUD SCHEME; MESOSCALE EVENT; QUASI SPECTRAL PARAMETERIZATION; QUASISPECTRAL PARAMETERIZATION; SNOW; SNOWFALL EVENT;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0030485022     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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