A critique of one- and two-dimensional models of boundary layer clouds with a binned representations of drop microphysics

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 47-48, Issue , 1998, Pages 529-553

  Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Cotton, William R ^b   Feingold, Graham ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS;

EID: 0031671502     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8095(98)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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