Snow studies. Part II: Average relationship between mass of snowflakes and their terminal fall velocity

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3319-3335

  Szyrmer, Wanda ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Snow

Indexed keywords

AREA RATIOS; DATA SETS; DISDROMETERS; FALL VELOCITIES; GROUND BASED; POWER LAW; POWER-LAW COEFFICIENTS; PRECIPITATING SNOW; SNOW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOW STUDIES;

AGGLOMERATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; VELOCITY;

SNOW;

DATA SET; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER LAW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 77958558940     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3390.1     Document Type: Article

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