Electric fields and charges near 0°C in stratiform clouds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 919-938

  Shepherd, Tommy R ^a,b   Rust, W David ^b   Marshall, Thomas C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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EID: 3643144867     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0919:EFACNI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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