Satellite-Based Insights into Precipitation Formation Processes in Continental and Maritime Convective Clouds

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2457-2476

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Lensky, Itamar M ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 0032458748     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<2457:SBIIPF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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