The role of heterogeneous freezing nucleation in upper tropospheric clouds: Inferences from SUCCESS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1387-1390

  DeMott, Paul J ^a   Rogers, David C ^a   Kreidenweis, Sonia M ^a   Chen, Yalei ^a   Twohy, Cynthia H ^b   Baumgardner, Darrel ^b   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^b   Chan, K Roland ^c  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; ICE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI (CCN); CONTINUOUS FLOW DIFFUSION CHAMBER (CFD); HETEROGENEOUS FREEZING NUCLEATION; ICE NUCLEI (IN); UPPER TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0032056432     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03779     Document Type: Article

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