Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7308, 2010, Pages 849-852

  Feingold, Graham ^a   Koren, Ilan ^b   Wang, Hailong ^c   Xue, Huiwen ^d   Brewer, Wm Alan ^a  

^a Earth System Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b Weizmann Institute   (Ireland)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FORMATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CLOUD; DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; GRAVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77955594983     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09314     Document Type: Article

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