Comparison of three cloud forecast schemes with in situ aircraft measurements

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1226-1235

  Guan, Hong ^a   Cober, Stewart G ^a   Isaac, George A ^a   Tremblay, André ^a   Méthot, André ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CLOUDS; ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; SUPERCOOLING; WATER;

SUPERCOOLED LIQUID WATER CONTENT (SLWC);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; FORECASTING METHOD; SUPERCOOLING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036930795     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<1226:COTCFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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