A focus on mixed-phase clouds

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1549-1562

  Shupe, Matthew D ^a,f   Daniel, John S ^a   de Boer, Gijs ^b   Eloranta, Edwin W ^b   Kollias, Pavlos ^c   Long, Charles N ^d   Luke, Edward P ^c   Turner, David D ^b   Verlinde, Johannes ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f The Pennsylvania State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL SENSORS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTIONS; ARCTIC CLOUDS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; CLIMATE RESEARCHES; CLOUD PHASE PARTITIONING; CURRENT MODELING; CURRENT STATUS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGIES; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; GROUND-BASED; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PROPERTIES; LIQUID WATER PATHS; LIQUID-PHASE; MICROPHYSICAL STRUCTURES; MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS; OPTICAL DEPTHS; PASSIVE SENSORS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; VALIDATION STUDIES; VERTICAL VELOCITIES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 60849086477     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2378.1     Document Type: Article

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