Particle composition of a young condensation trail and of upper tropospheric aerosol

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2679-2682

  Kuhn, M ^a   Petzold, A ^a   Baumgardner, D ^b   Schroder F P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Contrail; Exhaust emission

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; FOG; MIXTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS;

CONDENSATION TRAIL; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; AEROSOL SPECTROMETERS; BACKGROUND AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; EXHAUST PLUMES; ICE PARTICLES; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AEROSOL; CONTRAIL; EXHAUST EMISSION;

EID: 0032129129     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01932     Document Type: Article

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