Preliminary laboratory studies of the optical scattering properties of the crystal clouds

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 618-627

  Saunders, C ^a   Rimmer, J ^a   Jonas, P ^a   Arathoon, J ^a   Liu, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure; Climatology; Cloud physics and chemistry; Meteorology and atmosphere dynamics; Radiative process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542399104     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-0618-4     Document Type: Article

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