Analysis of tools used to quantify droplet clustering in clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3355-3367

  Baker, Brad ^a   Lawson, R Paul ^a  

^a SPEC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud droplets; Clouds; Fourier analysis; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLUSTERING INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DROPLET CLUSTERING; FOURIER; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; PAIR CORRELATIONS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

CLOUDS; DROP FORMATION; FISHERIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; POWER SPECTRUM; STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLOUD DROPLET; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958553312     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3409.1     Document Type: Article

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