The variability of tropical ice cloud properties as a function of the large-scale context from ground-based radar-lidar observations over Darwin, Australia

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 8363-8384

  Protat, A ^a,b   Delanoe J ^c   May, P T ^a   Haynes, J ^d   Jakob, C ^d   O'Connor, E ^c   Pope, M ^e   Wheeler, M C ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; ICE; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR; RADIOSONDE;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 80051748939     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-8363-2011     Document Type: Article

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