Initialization of a cloud-resolving model with airborne Doppler radar observations of an oceanic tropical convective system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1038-1055

  Bielli, Soline ^a   Roux, Frank ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

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EID: 85197329400     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1038:IOACRM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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