Cloud microphysical and precipitation responses to a large-scale forcing in the tropical deep convective regime

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 87-102

  Li, X ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TOGA-COARE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33750530341     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0172-5     Document Type: Article

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