A new source of tropospheric aerosols: Ion-ion recombination

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 635-638

  Turco, Richard P ^a   Zhao, Jing Xia ^b   Yu, Fangqun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SULFURIC ACID;

NUCLEATION BY ION-ION RECOMBINATION (NIIR);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; IONS;

AEROSOL SOURCE; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL;

ACCUMULATION MODES; AEROSOL PARTICLES; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ION-ION RECOMBINATIONS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

EID: 0032030046     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00253     Document Type: Article

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