Analysis of snowfall′s microphysical process from Doppler spectrum using Ka-band millimeter-wave cloud radar

LI Yu-Lian; SUN Xue-Jin; ZHAO Shi-Jun; JI Wen-Ming

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2019.02.019

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