Toward more accurate retrievals of ice water content from radar measurements of clouds

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1130-1146

  Liu, C L ^a   Illingworth, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE; REMOTE SENSING; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0033827772     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<1130:TMAROI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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