Characteristics of immersion freezing nuclei at the South Pole station in Antarctica

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4015-4024

  Ardon Dryer, K ^a   Levin, Z ^a,b   Lawson, R P ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^c SPEC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FREEZING; ICE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTH POLE;

EID: 79955625564     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-4015-2011     Document Type: Article

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