Ventilation Coefficients for Falling Ice Crystals in the Atmosphere at Low-Intermediate Reynolds Numbers

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 829-836

  Ji, Wusheng ^a   Wang, Pao K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLOUDS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; ICE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SCHMIDT NUMBER; VENTILATION COEFFICIENTS;

SNOW;

EID: 0344672557     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0829:VCFFIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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