On the measurement of atmospheric gamma drop-size distributions

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 245-247

  Brawn, Dan ^a   Upton, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 60149099358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.198     Document Type: Article

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