Aircraft measurements of high average charges on cloud drops in layer clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Beard, Kenneth V ^a,b   Ochs III, Harry T ^a,b   Twohy, Cynthia H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CHARGE SENSITIVITY; CLOUD DROP CHARGES; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESSES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4644344692     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020465     Document Type: Article

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