Cirrus cloud microphysical properties and air motion statistics using cloud radar Doppler moments: Water content, particle size, and sedimentation relationships

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Deng, Min ^a   Mace, Gerald G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ICE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTATION; WATER CONTENT;

AIR MOTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD RADARS; DOPPLER MOMENTS; ICE CLOUD PROPERTIES; ICE CLOUDS; ICE WATER CONTENTS; INTER-RELATIONSHIPS; MODELING APPLICATIONS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TROPICAL ICE CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; DOPPLER RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 57049163586     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035054     Document Type: Article

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