The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) sounding network: Operations, processing and analysis

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 421-434

  Jensen, M P ^a   Toto, T ^a   Troyan, D ^a   Ciesielski, P E ^b   Holdridge, D ^c   Kyrouac, J ^c   Schatz, J ^d   Zhang, Y ^e   Xie, S ^e  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARM Climate Research Facility   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMIDITY; RADIOSONDE; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY PROFILE;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921763375     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-421-2015     Document Type: Article

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