The relative importance of non-sea-salt sulphate and sea-salt aerosol to the marine cloud condensation nuclei population: An improved multi-component aerosol-cloud droplet parametrization

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 556, 1999, Pages 1295-1313

  O'Dowd, Colin D ^a   Lowe, Jason A ^b   Smith, Michael H ^b   Kaye, Andrew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Cloud processes

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SALT;

EID: 0032801464     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1999.49712555610     Document Type: Article

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