On the mechanisms of downdraft maintenance in cumulonimbus clouds

Hanna Pawlowska-Mankiewicz

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v39i3.11759

On the mechanisms of downdraft maintenance in cumulonimbus clouds

Tellus

Volume 39 (1987): Issue 3

By: Hanna Pawlowska-Mankiewicz

Open Access

|Jan 1987

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