On the distribution of cloud top heights based on stochastic forcing

Klaus Fraedrich

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i2.11664

On the distribution of cloud top heights based on stochastic forcing

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 2

By: Klaus Fraedrich

Open Access

|Jan 1985

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