Retrieval of aerosol properties from moments of the particle size distribution for kernels involving the step function: Cloud droplet activation

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 319-337

  Wright, D L ^a,e   Yu, Shaocai ^a   Kasibhatla, P S ^a   McGraw, R ^b   Schwartz, S E ^b   Saxena, V K ^c   Yue, G K ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud activation; Modeling; Moments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CLOUD DROPS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; CLOUD DROPLET; MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE;

ACCURACY; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLOUD; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036132649     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8502(01)00172-0     Document Type: Article

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