The evolution of liquid water/ice contents of a mid-latitude convective storm derived from radar data and results from a cloud-resolving model

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-232

  Bertram, Ingo ^a   Seifert, Axel ^a   Beheng, Klaus D ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS;

DOPPLER RADAR; ICE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THUNDERSTORM; WATER;

EID: 33244459460     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0221     Document Type: Article

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