Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7795-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7795-2013
Research article
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13 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 13 Aug 2013

Direct entrainment and detrainment rate distributions of individual shallow cumulus clouds in an LES

J. T. Dawe and P. H. Austin

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