Sea-salt aerosols over the north-east Atlantic: Model simulations of the ACE-2 Second Lagrangian experiment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 601 PART B, 2004, Pages 2191-2215

  Glantz, Paul ^a   Svensson, Gunilla ^a   Noone, Kevin J ^a   Osborne, Simon R ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marine stratocumulus; Numerical modelling; Sea salt gradients

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALTS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENT; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS (MBD); NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC; SEA-SALT AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SALT; STRATOCUMULUS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 4844221860     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.82     Document Type: Article

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