Toward the theory of homogeneous nucleation and its parameterization for cloud models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3155-3158

  Khvorostyanov, Vitaly ^a,b   Sassen, Kenneth ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Utah ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SULFURIC ACID; CLOUD COMPUTING;

HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLOUD MODELS; CURVATURE EFFECT; FREEZING RATE; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; SULFURIC ACID SOLUTION;

CLOUDS; NUCLEATION;

CLOUD; NUCLEATION;

EID: 0032529765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02332     Document Type: Article

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