What is the effect of cloud inhomogeneities on actinic fluxes and chemical species concentrations?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Bouet, Christel ^a   Szczap, Frédéric ^a   Leriche, Maud ^a   Benassi, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; PHOTOLYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ACTINIC FLUXES; PHOTOLYSIS COEFFICIENTS; TROPOSPHERIC SPECIES CONCENTRATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

ACTINIC FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUD DROPLET;

EID: 33644634931     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024727     Document Type: Article

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