Analysis of 10.7-μ brightness temperatures of a simulated thunderstorm with two-moment microphysics

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 815-825

  Grasso, Lewis D ^a   Greenwald, Thomas J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; ICE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION; RAIN; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SNOW; WATER; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTHS; MICROPHYSICAL SCHEME;

THUNDERSTORMS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 1842735866     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0815:AOMBTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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