Joint effect of organic acids and inorganic salts on cloud droplet activation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3895-3911

  Frosch, M ^a   Prisle, N L ^a,b   Bilde, M ^a   Varga, Z ^c   Kiss, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; INORGANIC SALT; ORGANIC ACID; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTITIONING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACTANT; TENSIOMETER;

EID: 79955544863     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-3895-2011     Document Type: Article

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