Contribution of particle formation to global cloud condensation nuclei concentrations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Spracklen, Dominick V ^a   Carslaw, Kenneth S ^a   Kulmala, Markku ^b   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^c   Sihto, Sanna Liisa ^b   Riipinen, Ilona ^b   Merikanto, Joonas ^a   Mann, Graham W ^a   Chipperfield, Martyn P ^a   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^d   Birmili, Wolfram ^d   Lihavainen, Heikki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUDS; GEOPHYSICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

MOLECULAR CLUSTERS; NUCLEI CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE FORMATION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL FORMATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROWTH RATE; MODELING; SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 44349106990     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033038     Document Type: Article

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