Pollution from China increases cloud droplet number, suppresses rain over the East China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Bennartz, Ralf ^a   Fan, Jiwen ^b   Rausch, John ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^b   Heidinger, Andrew K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; DROPS; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; AEROSOL LOADING; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; EAST CHINA SEA; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; EMISSION SOURCES; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MESOCALE; MODEL SENSITIVITY; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TIME-PERIODS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD DROPLET; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAJECTORY;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; JIANGSU; JINAN [SHANDONG]; NANJING [JIANGSU]; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHANDONG; SHANGHAI;

EID: 79955794828     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047235     Document Type: Article

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