Nitric acid concentrations near the tropical tropopause: Implications for the properties of tropical nitric acid trihydrate clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Jensen, Eric ^a   Drdla, Katja ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; TROPICS;

BACKGROUND AEROSOL; EXTINCTION RATIO MEASUREMENTS; ICE CLOUDS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MIXING RATIOS; NITRIC ACID CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

NITRIC ACID;

EID: 0037110231     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015190     Document Type: Article

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