How efficient is cloud droplet formation of organic aerosols?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Lohmann, Ulrike ^a   Broekhuizen, Keith ^b   Leaitch, Richard ^c   Shantz, Nicole ^d   Abbatt, Jonathan ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DROP FORMATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

ADIABATIC PARCEL MODEL; CLOUD DROPLET FORMATION; SOLUBLE ORGANICS; SURFACE ACTIVE SPECIES;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 2442562341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl018999     Document Type: Article

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