Phase transformations of the ternary system (NH4)2SO4-H2SO4-H2O and the implications for cirrus cloud formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1657-1660

  Martin, Scot T ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE; TERNARY SYSTEMS; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; IONS; MASS TRANSFER; TROPOSPHERE;

HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY; HETEROGENEOUS GROWTH; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; TERNARY PHASE DIAGRAMS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUDS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AMMONIATION; CIRRUS CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD FORMATION; SULPHATE;

EID: 0032523693     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00634     Document Type: Article

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