Model simulations of melting hydrometeors: A new lidar bright band from melting frozen drops

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Di Girolamo, Paolo ^a   Demoz, Belay B ^b   Whiteman, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RADAR; SNOW; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CODES (SYMBOLS); DROPS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MELTING; RADAR; SPHERES;

MELTING HYDROMETEORS; CONCENTRIC SPHERES; ECCENTRIC SPHERES; FREEZING LEVELS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MELTING LAYERS; MELTING PROCESS; MODEL SIMULATION; RADAR BRIGHT BAND;

GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; FREEZING; HYDROMETRY; MELTING;

EID: 0347413669     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016825     Document Type: Article

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