Scavenging of soluble trace gases by falling rain droplets in inhomogeneous atmosphere

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2133-2139

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

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gas absorption; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Precipitation scavenging; Rain droplets; Trace gases

Indexed keywords

COMPLETELY-MIXED; CONCENTRATION OF; CONJUGATE EQUATION; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION BOUNDARY-LAYERS; DUHAMEL'S THEOREM; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS DESORPTION; GASEOUS PHASIS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERE; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS; INTERNAL CIRCULATIONS; LAPSE RATE; LINEAR CONVOLUTION; NONISOTHERMAL; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRACE GAS; TRACE GAS CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE-GASES; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONVOLUTION; DESORPTION; DROP FORMATION; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; GASES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MASS TRANSFER; RAIN; TRACE ANALYSIS;

GAS ABSORPTION;

RAIN; SCAVENGER; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABSORPTION; ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; RAINDROP; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); TRACE GAS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOSORPTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GASIFICATION; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 77951120165     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.02.035     Document Type: Article

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