Charged meteoric smoke as ice nuclei in the mesosphere: Part 1-A review of basic concepts

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1225-1235

  Gumbel, J ^a   Megner, L ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Charging processes; Mesosphere; Meteoric smoke; NLC ice nucleation

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; CHARGING PROCESSES; CONDENSATION NUCLEI; DOMINANT MECHANISM; GLOBAL TRANSPORT; ICE FORMATIONS; ICE MODEL; ICE NUCLEI; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MESOSPHERE; METEORIC MATERIALS; METEORIC SMOKE; MODEL SIMULATION; NLC ICE NUCLEATION; NUCLEATION PROCESS; PARTICULATE SIZE; SMOKE PARTICLES; TRANSITION REGIMES;

ICE; NUCLEATION;

SMOKE;

EID: 67650547196     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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