A semi-empirical parametrization for total in situ specific humidity standard deviation derived from tethered balloon observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 580, 2002, Pages 733-739

  Price, Jeremy D ^a  

^a Meteorological Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud parametrization; Humidity distributions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS;

STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; CLOUD WATER; HUMIDITY; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0036130798     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/003590002321042171     Document Type: Article

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