A GAUSSIAN MODELLING OF THE RAINDROPS SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION IN ACTIVE WARM CLOUDS

Emile Danho (Ivory Coast) and Roger N’dri Djue (Ivory Coast)

Received January 15, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: clouds, raindrops, microphysics, dynamics, thermodynamics, mixing ratio, Gaussian distribution.