Spatial distribution of cloud droplets in a turbulent cloud-chamber flow

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 2047-2062

  Jaczewski, A ^a   Malinowski, S P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cloud microphysics; Droplet distribution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 27644544935     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.65     Document Type: Article

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