Observations and kinematic modeling of drizzling marine stratocumulus

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 120-135

  Rasinski, Piotr ^a   Pawlowska, Hanna ^a   Grabowski, Wojciech W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud modeling; Drizzle; Stratocumulus

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD MODELING; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CLOUD WATER; DRIZZLE; DRIZZLE DROPS; DROPLET CONCENTRATION; DROPLET SIZES; DYCOMS-II; KINEMATIC MODEL; KINEMATIC MODELING; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL MODELING; SINGLE-VALUE; STRATOCUMULUS; STRATOCUMULUS-TOPPED MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION; TWIN EXPERIMENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); KINEMATICS;

DROPS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD WATER; DRIZZLE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOCUMULUS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 80052848146     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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