Importance of a proper treatment of ice crystal sedimentation for cirrus clouds in large-scale models

12th Conference on Cloud Physics, and 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Spichtinger, Peter ^a   Gierens, Klaus ^b   Lohmann, Ulrike ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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