A multisensor approach toward a better understanding of snowfall microphysics the tosca project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 613-628

  Lohnert U ^a   Kneifel, S ^a   Battaglia, A ^b   Hagen, M ^c   Hirsch, L ^d   Crewell, S ^a  

^a Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION GROWTH; ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; GROUND BASED; LIQUID WATER; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; MICROPHYSICS; MULTI SENSOR; PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENT; SNOW WATER CONTENT; SUPERCOOLED LIQUID WATER; VERTICAL PROFILING;

AGGLOMERATION; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SUPERCOOLING; WATER CONTENT;

SNOW;

EID: 79958835811     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2909.1     Document Type: Article

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