Fragmentation of freezing drops in shallow maritime frontal clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1455-1466

  Rangno, Arthur L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DROP FORMATION; FLUID MECHANICS; FREEZING; ICE; SUPERCOOLING;

AIRBORNE SAMPLING; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); COASTAL WATER (CW); FREE FALL; FREEZING DROPS; FRONTAL CLOUDS; FROZEN DROPS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; WASHINGTON STATE;

DROPS;

CLOUD DROPLET; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRAGMENTATION; FREEZING; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 45849143698     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2295.1     Document Type: Article

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