Articles | Volume 6, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-1925-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-1925-2013
Development and technical paper
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06 Nov 2013
Development and technical paper |  | 06 Nov 2013

A bulk parametrization of melting snowflakes with explicit liquid water fraction for the COSMO model

C. Frick, A. Seifert, and H. Wernli

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