Cloud radar Doppler spectra in drizzling stratiform clouds: 2. Observations and microphysical modeling of drizzle evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Szyrmer, Wanda ^a   Rémillard, Jasmine ^a   Luke, Edward ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; EVAPORATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTORS; AREAS OF INTERESTS; AUTOCONVERSION; CLOUD BASE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADAR; DOPPLER; DOPPLER SPECTRA; EVAPORATION PROCESS; FORMATION RATES; FORWARD MODELS; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; MODELING RESULTS; MODELING STUDIES; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; STEADY STATE; STRATIFORM CLOUDS;

RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; DRIZZLE; EVAPORATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADAR IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 79960183414     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015238     Document Type: Article

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