Intercomparison of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in stratiform orographic mixed-phase clouds

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 8173-8196

  Muhlbauer, A ^a   Hashino, T ^b,g   Xue, L ^c   Teller, A ^c,h   Lohmann, U ^d   Rasmussen, R M ^c   Geresdi, I ^e   Pan, Z ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^f Saint Louis University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRATIFORM CLOUD; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77956330226     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-8173-2010     Document Type: Article

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