Mystery of ice multiplication in warm-based precipitating shallow cumulus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Jiming ^a,b   Ariya, Parisa A ^a   Leighton, Henry G ^a   Yau, M K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLETS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE NUCLEI; ICE PARTICLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NARROW BANDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; SUPERCOOLED RAINDROPS;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ICE;

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CUMULUS; FREEZING; ICE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINDROP; RIME;

EID: 77953040893     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042440     Document Type: Article

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