Can aerosol decrease cloud lifetime?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Small, Jennifer D ^a   Chuang, Patrick Y ^a   Feingold, Graham ^b   Jiang, Hongli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; SOLAR RADIATION;

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD WATER; CUMULUS CLOUD; DROPLET CONCENTRATION; LIQUID WATER; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SCALE MODELING STUDY;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CUMULUS; DROPLET; EVAPORATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 71949119419     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038888     Document Type: Article

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