Freezing of polar stratospheric clouds in orographically induced strong warming events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2303-2306

  Tsias, A ^a   Prenni, A J ^b   Carslaw, K S ^a   Onasch, T P ^b   Luo, B R ^a   Tolbert, M A ^b   Peter, Th ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLIMATOLOGY; FREEZING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; DROPS; NITRIC ACID;

NITRIC ACID DIHYDRATE (NAD); OROGRAPHICALLY INDUCED STRONG WARMING EVENTS; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; STRATOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE CLIMATOLOGY; WATER ICE FROST POINT;

CLOUDS; FREEZING;

FROST POINT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID COMPOSITIONS; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; RAPID TEMPERATURE; WAVE CLIMATOLOGIES;

EID: 0031234881     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02181     Document Type: Article

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