Impact of ice particle habits on simulated clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Reinhardt, Thorsten ^a,b   Wacker, U ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

0320 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Cloud physics and chemistry; 3337 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation; 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854)

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; DEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITION RATES; ICE; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DEPOSITION RATES; PRECIPITATION PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTATION FLUXES;

ICE; AGGLOMERATION;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE PARTICLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTATION FLUXES; SIMULATION STUDIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 13244279428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021134     Document Type: Article

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