Influence of convection and aerosol pollution on ice cloud particle effective radius

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 457-463

  Jiang, J H ^a   Su, H ^a   Zhai, C ^a   Massie, S T ^b   Schoeberl, M R ^c   Colarco, P R ^d   Platnick, S ^d   Gu, Y ^e   Liou, K N ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 78751495570     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-457-2011     Document Type: Article

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