Multiyear summertime observations of daytime fair-weather cumuli at the ARM southern great plains facility

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 10031-10050

  Chandra, Arunchandra S ^a   Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Albrecht, Bruce A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Climatology; Cumulus clouds; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CUMULUS CLOUD; FUZZY LOGIC-BASED ALGORITHM; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ASPECT RATIO; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; FUZZY LOGIC; LANDFORMS; RADAR;

VELOCITY;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; CUMULUS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; RADAR; SUMMER;

GREAT PLAINS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84890206677     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00223.1     Document Type: Article

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