Results from the CERN pilot CLOUD experiment

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1635-1647

  Duplissy, J ^a   Enghoff, M B ^b   Aplin, K L ^c   Arnold, F ^d   Aufmhoff, H ^d   Avngaard, M ^b   Baltensperger, U ^e   Bondo, T ^b   Bingham, R ^c   Carslaw, K ^f   Curtius, J ^g   David, A ^a   Fastrup, B ^h   Gagne S ⁱ   Hahn, F ^a   Harrison, R G ^j   Kellett, B ^c   Kirkby, J ^a   Kulmala, M ⁱ   Laakso, L ⁱ   Laaksonen, A ^k   Lillestol, E ^l   Lockwood, M ^c   Makela J ^m   Makhmutov, V ⁿ   Marsh, N D ^b   Nieminen, T ⁱ   Onnela, A ^a   Pedersen, E ^h   P Pedersen, J O ^b   Polny, J ^b   Reichl, U ^d   Seinfeld, J H ^o   Sipila M ⁱ   Stozhkov, Y ⁿ   Stratmann, F ^p   Svensmark, H ^b   Svensmark, J ^b   Veenhof, R ^a   Verheggen, B ^e   Viisanen, Y ^q   Wagner, P E ^r   Wehrle, G ^e   Weingartner, E ^e   Wex, H ^p   Wilhelmsson, M ^a   Winkler, P M ^r   more..

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^m TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

ⁿ LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^o California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^p LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^q FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^r INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FORMATION; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; IONIZATION; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFURIC ACID; THRESHOLD;

EID: 76749101127     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1635-2010     Document Type: Article

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