An analytic study on the evolution of the vertical profile of rain water concentration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1275-1278

  Wacker, Ulrike ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SHOCK WAVES; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION EQUATIONS; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; MULTI-VALUED SOLUTION; NONLINEAR WAVE DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION FLUXES; PROGNOSTIC EQUATIONS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINWATER;

RAIN WATER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0034352899     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL006088     Document Type: Article

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