Mountaintop and radar measurements of anthropogenic aerosol effects on snow growth and snowfall rate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Borys, Randolph D ^a   Lowenthal, Douglas H ^a   Cohn, Stephen A ^b   Brown, William O J ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SNOW;

SNOWFALL RATE;

GEOPHYSICS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0041782101     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016855     Document Type: Article

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