Pollen grains are efficient cloud condensation nuclei

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pope, F D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCN; Cloud condensation nuclei; EDB; Electrodynamic balance; Hygroscopicity; Pollen

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751525332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/044015     Document Type: Article

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