Effective ice particle densities for cold anvil cirrus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Heymsfield, Andrew J ^a   Schmitt, Carl G ^a   Bansemer, Aaron ^a   Baumgardner, Darrel ^b   Weinstock, Elliot M ^c   Smith, Jessica T ^c   Sayres, David ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; NASA; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CONDENSED WATER CONTENT; ICE PARTICLE DENSITIES; CIRRUS REGIONAL STUDY OF TROPICAL ANVILS AND CIRRUS LAYERS; CONDENSED WATER; EQUIVALENT DIAMETER; FLORIDA AREA CIRRUS EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; MIXED PARTICLES; PARTICLE POPULATION;

GEOPHYSICS; ICE;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ICE CRYSTAL;

APSEUDES;

EID: 18144443335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018311     Document Type: Article

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