Cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes

Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-210

  Gao, Shouting ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

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EID: 84895266058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8276-4     Document Type: Book

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