Evidence for the nucleation of polar stratospheric clouds inside liquid particles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Irie, Hitoshi ^a   Kondo, Yutaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CLOUDS; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIC ACID; NUCLEATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

PARTICLE FORMATION MECHANISMS; ADVANCED EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITES; BACK TRAJECTORIES; IMPROVED LIMB ATMOSPHERIC SPECTROMETERS; LIQUID AEROSOLS; LIQUID PARTICLE; PARTICLE FORMATION MECHANISM; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; REACTIVE NITROGEN;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; DENITRIFICATION;

CLOUD; NUCLEATION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0038166180     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016493     Document Type: Article

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