The role of ammoniated aerosols in cirrus cloud nucleation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1379-1382

  Tabazadeh, Azadeh ^a   Toon, Owen B ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SALTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AMMONIATED AEROSOLS; CIRRUS CLOUD NUCLEATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AMMONIUM; CIRRUS; CLOUD; NUCLEATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032076367     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03585     Document Type: Article

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