Aerosol nucleation induced by a high energy particle beam

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Enghoff, Martin B ^a   Pedersen, Jens Olaf Pepke ^a   Uggerhøj, Ulrik I ^b   Paling, Sean M ^c   Svensmark, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRON BEAMS; IONIZATION; IONS; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS; SULFURIC ACID;

ACCELERATOR BEAMS; ACID AEROSOLS; AEROSOL NUCLEATION; GAMMA SOURCE; HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE BEAM; ION-INDUCED NUCLEATION; IONIZATION SOURCES; IONIZING PARTICLES; PRESSURE REACTIONS; REACTION CHAMBERS;

NUCLEATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRON; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; ION; IONIZATION; NUCLEATION; SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 79956369892     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047036     Document Type: Article

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