Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to - 37.5 °C

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6785, 2000, Pages 440-442

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Woodley, William L ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Woodley Weather Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; SUPERCOOLING; WATER;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLOUD; FREEZING; LIQUID; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0034713365     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35013030     Document Type: Article

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