Characteristics of raindrop size distribution dependent on the life stage of a convective precipitation cloud in the Baiu season

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 641-649

  Hashimoto, Akihiro ^a,b   Harimaya, Toshio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DISSIPATION; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 27344455288     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.83.641     Document Type: Article

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