Idealized model for stratocumulus cloud layer thickness

Alan K. Betts

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v41i3.11837

Idealized model for stratocumulus cloud layer thickness

Tellus

Volume 41 (1989): Issue 3

By: Alan K. Betts

Open Access

|Jan 1989

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