Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-913-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-913-2015
Research article
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27 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 27 Jan 2015

Macroscopic impacts of cloud and precipitation processes on maritime shallow convection as simulated by a large eddy simulation model with bin microphysics

W. W. Grabowski, L.-P. Wang, and T. V. Prabha

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