Articles | Volume 14, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10897-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10897-2014
Research article
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15 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 15 Oct 2014

Characteristics of the raindrop distributions in RICO shallow cumulus

O. Geoffroy, A. P. Siebesma, and F. Burnet

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