The usuitability of meteoritic and other nuclei for polar stratospheric cloud freezing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1693-1696

  Biermann, U M ^a   Presper, T ^a   Koop, T ^a   Moßinger J ^a   Crutzen, P J ^a   Peter, Th ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEORITES; NUCLEATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FREEZING; HYDRATES; NITRIC ACID; OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITES; SOLUTIONS; SULFURIC ACID;

BULK FREEZING; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL; FREEZING EXPERIMENTS; FROST POINT; HETEROGENEOUS FREEZING; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; SURFACE AREA;

FREEZING; CLOUDS;

ICE FROST POINT; LIQUID TERNARY SOLUTION DROPLETS; NITRIC ACID HYDRATE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; SULFURIC ACID HYDRATE;

CLOUD FREEZING; FREEZING EXPERIMENT; METEORITE; NITRIC ACID; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; SULPHURIC ACID;

EID: 0030159310     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01577     Document Type: Article

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