Aerosol-cloud drop concentration closure for clouds sampled during the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation 2004 campaign

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Fountoukis, Christos ^a   Nenes, Athanasios ^a,b   Meskhidze, Nicholas ^b,c   Bahreini, Roya ^d,e   Conant, William C ^d,f   Jonsson, Haflidi ^g   Murphy, Shane ^h   Sorooshian, Armin ^h   Varutbangkul, Varuntida ^h   Brechtel, Fred ^d   Flagan, Richard C ^d,h   Seinfeld, John H ^d,h  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^h California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; DROPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMPLING; SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; AEROSOL; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SUPERSATURATION; UPDRAFT; WATER VAPOR;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547577197     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007272     Document Type: Article

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