Introducing the effective radius into a fast radiation scheme of a mesoscale model

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 205-218

  Wyser, Klaus ^a,d   Rontu, Laura ^b   Savijärvi, Hannu ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Department of Meteorology ^*  (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ICE CRYSTAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 0032693787     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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