Particle production near marine clouds: Sulfuric acid and predictions from classical binary nucleation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2425-2428

  Clarke, A D ^a   Kapustin, V N ^a   Eisele, F L ^b   Weber, R J ^c   McMurry, P H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; HYDROGEN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SULFURIC ACID; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; BINS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORECASTING;

BINARY NUCLEATION; FREE TROPOSPHERE; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE CLOUDS; ACID PRODUCTION; AEROSOL PARTICLES; CHEMICAL SPECIES; HIGH-HUMIDITY ENVIRONMENT; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; NUCLEATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; NUCLEATION; SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 0033377065     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900438     Document Type: Article

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