Long-wave optical properties of water clouds and rain

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Savijärvi, Hannu ^a   Räisänen, Petri ^a  

^a Department of Meteorology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG WAVE; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAIN; WATER CLOUD;

EID: 0031782101     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v50i1.14508     Document Type: Article

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