On the influence of raindrop collision outcomes on equilibrium drop size distributions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1534-1546

  Prat, Olivier P ^a   Barros, Ana P ^b   Testik, Firat Y ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud microphysics; Cloud parameterizations; Drop size distribution

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROP DIAMETERS; DROP NUMBERS; DROP SIZE; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; MODELING RESULTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; RAIN-INTENSITY; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WEBER NUMBERS;

PARAMETERIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DROPS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84864844190     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0192.1     Document Type: Article

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