Frequency of occurrence of rain from liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds derived from A-Train satellite retrievals

A climatology of thermodynamic phase of precipitating cloud is presented derived from global—land and ocean—, retrievals from Cloudsat, CALIPSO, and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. Like precipitation rate, precipitation frequency is dominated by warm rain, defined as rain produced via...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mülmenstädt, Johannes, Sourdeval, Odran, Delanoë, Julien, Quaas, Johannes
Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Institut für Meterologie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2016
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-202461
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-202461
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/20246/muelmenstaedt_grl_2015.pdf