An overview of the Lagrangian experiments undertaken during the North Atlantic regional Aerosol Characterisation Experiment (ACE-2)

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 290-320

  Johnson, Doug W ^a   Osborne, Simon ^a   Wood, Robert ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^f   Johnson, Randy ^b   Businger, Steven ^f   Quinn, Patricia K ^c   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^d   Durkee, Philip A ^f   Russell, Lynn M ^f   Andreae, Meinrat O ^e   O'Dowd, Colin ^f   Noone, Kevin J ^f   Bandy, Brian ^f   Rudolph, J ^f   Rapsomanikis, Spyros ^f  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Field Research Division   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IFT   (Germany)

^e MPI for Chemistry   (Germany)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACE 2; AEROSOL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PROGRAM;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034036702     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v52i2.16110     Document Type: Article

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