The role of competition effect in the raindrop formation

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-118

  Segal, Y ^a   Pinsky, M ^a   Khain, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerosol effects; Cloud modeling; Cloud seeding; Competition effect; Rain formation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUD SEEDING; CONDENSATION; DROP FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOUD CONDENSATIONAL NUCLEI; COMPETITION EFFECT; DROPLET CONCENTRATION; HYGROSCOPIC SEEDING; RAINDROP FORMATION;

RAIN;

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD SEEDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINDROP;

EID: 33845623824     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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