The potential impact of soot particles from aircraft exhaust on cirrus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-252

  Jensen, Eric J ^a,b   Toon, Owen B ^b  

^a BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; NUCLEATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOOT; TROPOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; FREEZING; ICE; SUPERSATURATION;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; SULFATE AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

AEROSOL; AIRCRAFT EMISSION; CIRRUS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT; SULPHATE AEROSOL;

AIRCRAFT EXHAUSTS; HETEROGENEOUS FREEZING; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEUS; INSOLUBLE PARTICLES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0031072237     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03235     Document Type: Article

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