Airship measurements of ship's exhaust plumes and their effect on marine boundary layer clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2625-2648

  Frick, Glendon M ^a   Hoppel, W A ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EXHAUST EMISSION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0033793330     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<2625:AMOSSE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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