Notes on the state-of-the-art numerical modeling of cloud microphysics

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 159-224

  Khain, A ^a   Ovtchinnikov, M ^b   Pinsky, M ^a   Pokrovsky, A ^a   Krugliak, H ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud microphysics; Droplet spectrum formation; Numerical modeling of cloud processes; Precipitation formation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034528942     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8095(00)00064-8     Document Type: Article

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