A model of coupled oscillators applied to the aerosol-cloud-precipitation system

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1011-1021

  Feingold, G ^a   Koren, I ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COUPLING; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD;

EID: 84890110568     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-20-1011-2013     Document Type: Article

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