Evaporation of rain falling below a cloud base through a deep atmospheric boundary layer over an arid region

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-397

  Takemi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0039523388     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.77.2_387     Document Type: Article

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