On the mixture of aerosols and ice clouds over the Tibetan Plateau: Results of a balloon flight in the summer of 1999

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Tobo, Yutaka ^a   Zhang, Daizhou ^b   Iwasaka, Yasunobu ^a   Shi, Guangyu ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF KUMAMOTO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; ICE; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TROPOSPHERE;

ICE CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; SUBMICRON AEROSOLS;

METEOROLOGY;

AEROSOL; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 39049144236     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031132     Document Type: Article

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