Early radar echoes from small, warm cumulus: Bragg and hvdrometeor scattering

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2974-2992

  Knight, Charles A ^a   Miller, L Jay ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULUS; RADAR; SCATTERING;

EID: 0032455544     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<2974:EREFSW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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