Enrichment of surface-active compounds in coalescing cloud drops

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Taraniuk, Ilya ^a   Kostinski, Alex B ^b   Rudich, Yinon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROP FORMATION; FLOCCULATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MILITARY OPERATIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD DROPS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROCESSES; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMBINED SURFACES; DROPLET GROWTHS; INSOLUBLE SURFACTANTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; PRESENCE OF WATERS; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

DROPS;

CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COALESCENCE; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACTANT;

EID: 57749184529     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034973     Document Type: Article

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