Importance of small ice crystals to cirrus properties: Observations from the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  McFarquhar, Greg M ^a   Um, Junshik ^a   Freer, Matt ^a   Baumgardner, Darrel ^b   Kok, Gregory L ^c   Mace, Gerald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Droplet Measurement Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW OF GASES; ICE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROBES; SPECTROMETERS; TROPICS;

AIRFLOW; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ICE CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; IMAGING PROBE;

CLOUDS;

AIRFLOW; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; ICE CRYSTAL;

EID: 34548624584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029865     Document Type: Article

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