Improved formulations of the superposition method

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1255-1266

  Wang, Lian Ping ^a   Ayala, Orlando ^a   Grabowski, Wojciech W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; LUBRICATION;

CLOUD DROPLETS; INTERACTING DROPLETS; STOKES DISTURBANCE FLOWS; SUPERIMPOSITION METHODS;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 18544382826     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3397.1     Document Type: Article

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