On the analysis of a cloud seeding dataset over Tasmania

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1267-1280

  Morrison, Anthony E ^a   Siems, Steven T ^a   Manton, Michael J ^a   Nazarov, Alex ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Hydro Tasmania Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONFERRONI ADJUSTMENT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SETS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA;

CATCHMENTS;

CLOUD SEEDING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD SEEDING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 67651250533     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2068.1     Document Type: Article

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