Ice nucleation processes in upper tropospheric wave-clouds observed during SUCCESS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1363-1366

  Jensen, E J ^a   Toon, O B ^b   Tabazadeh, A ^a   Sachse, G W ^c   Anderson, B E ^c   Chan, K R ^a   Twohy, C W ^d   Gandrud, B ^d   Aulenbach, S M ^d   Heymsfield, A ^d   Hallett, J ^e   Gary, B ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FREEZING; ICE; NUCLEATION; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE;

UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WAVE CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE; NUCLEATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032075912     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00299     Document Type: Article

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