Effect of altitude concentration gradient of soluble gaseous pollutants on their scavenging by falling rain droplets

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2349-2358

  Elperin, Tov ^a   Fominykh, Andrew ^a   Krasovitov, Boris ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; COMPLETELY-MIXED; CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CONCENTRATION OF; CONJUGATE EQUATION; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION BOUNDARY-LAYERS; DUHAMEL'S THEOREM; FALLING DROPLET; GASEOUS PHASE; GASEOUS PHASIS; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS; INTERNAL CIRCULATIONS; NONUNIFORM; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRACE-GASES; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONVOLUTION; DROP FORMATION; FOG; RAIN;

GAS ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINDROP; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); TRACE GAS;

EID: 70349300421     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2922.1     Document Type: Article

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