Fluctuations and luck in droplet growth by coalescence

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 235-244

  Kostinski, Alexander B ^a   Shaw, Raymond A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CUMULUS CLOUDS; STOCHASTIC COALESCENCE; WARM RAIN INITIATION;

RAIN;

EID: 15044360116     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-2-235     Document Type: Article

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