Modeling aerosol growth by aqueous chemistry in a nonprecipitating stratiform cloud

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Ovchinnikov, Mikhail ^a   Easter, Richard C ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PHYSICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL GROWTH; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY; BIN MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD PARTICLES; DROPLET MASS; DROPLET NUMBER; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LIQUID WATER; MICROPHYSICS; MODULE-BASED; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; PARTICLE MIXING; RE-SUSPENSION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SHALLOW MARINE; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; SULFATE AEROSOLS; SULFATE PRODUCTION; TEM; THREE MODELS; TRAJECTORY ENSEMBLE MODELS; WATER PARTITIONING;

DROP FORMATION;

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 77955404397     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012816     Document Type: Article

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