Charge transfer during crystal-graupel collisions for two different cloud droplet size distributions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3837-3840

  Avila, E E ^a   Pereyra, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHARGE TRANSFER; CLOUDS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS; WATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE;

CLOUD DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CRYSTAL GRAUPEL COLLISION; DROPLET SPECTRUM; THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIFICATION;

GEOPHYSICS; DROPS;

CLOUD DROPLET; ION EXCHANGE;

CLOUD DROPLETS; DROPLET SPECTRUMS; ICE CRYSTALS; IMPACT VELOCITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIFICATION;

EID: 0034484603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012302     Document Type: Article

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