Characteristics of clouds and cloud clusters obtained by radar and satellite data during the TOGA COARE IOP

Journal of the Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science, Series VII: Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 189-223

  Islam, Md Nazrul ^a,b   Uyeda, Hiroshi ^a   Kikuchi, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLUSTER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; RADAR; SATELLITE MEASUREMENT; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, MANUS ISLAND;

EID: 0031444064     PISSN: 0441067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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