Ice water content of Arctic, midlatitude, and tropical cirrus - Part 2: Extension of the database and new statistical analysis

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6447-6459

  Luebke, A E ^a   Avallone, L M ^a   Meyer, J ^b   Rolf, C ^b   Kramer M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATABASE; ICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84880621356     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-6447-2013     Document Type: Article

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