Parametrization of effective sizes of cirrus-cloud particles and its verification against observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 560, 1999, Pages 3037-3055

  Sun, Zhian ^a   Rikus, Lawrie ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Crystal effective size; Scattering properties

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 0033427607     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56011     Document Type: Article

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