How do changes in warm-phase microphysics affect deep convective clouds?

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 9585-9598

  Chen, Qian ^a,b   Koren, Ilan ^a   Altaratz, Orit ^a   Heiblum, Reuven H ^a   Dagan, Guy ^a   Pinto, Lital ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONDENSATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MARSHALL ISLANDS;

EID: 85027139940     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-9585-2017     Document Type: Article

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