Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7361, 2011, Pages 429-435

  Kirkby, Jasper ^a   Curtius, Joachim ^b   Almeida, João ^b,c   Dunne, Eimear ^d   Duplissy, Jonathan ^a,e   Ehrhart, Sebastian ^b   Franchin, Alessandro ^e   Gagné, Stéphanie ^e   Ickes, Luisa ^b   Kürten, Andreas ^b   Kupc, Agnieszka ^f   Metzger, Axel ^g   Riccobono, Francesco ^h   Rondo, Linda ^b   Schobesberger, Siegfried ^e   Tsagkogeorgas, Georgios ⁱ   Wimmer, Daniela ^b   Amorim, Antonio ^c   Bianchi, Federico ^h,j   Breitenlechner, Martin ^g   David, André ^a   Dommen, Josef ^h   Downard, Andrew ^k   Ehn, Mikael ^e   Flagan, Richard C ^k   Haider, Stefan ^a   Hansel, Armin ^g   Hauser, Daniel ^g   Jud, Werner ^g   Junninen, Heikki ^e   Kreissl, Fabian ^b   Kvashin, Alexander ^l   Laaksonen, Ari ^m   Lehtipalo, Katrianne ^e   Lima, Jorge ^c   Lovejoy, Edward R ⁿ   Makhmutov, Vladimir ^l   Mathot, Serge ^a   Mikkilä, Jyri ^e   Minginette, Pierre ^a   Mogo, Sandra ^c   Nieminen, Tuomo ^e   Onnela, Antti ^a   Pereira, Paulo ^c   Petäjä, Tuukka ^e   Schnitzhofer, Ralf ^g   Seinfeld, John H ^k   Sipilä, Mikko ^e   Stozhkov, Yuri ^l   Stratmann, Frank ⁱ   Tomé, Antonio ^c   Vanhanen, Joonas ^e   Viisanen, Yrjo ^o   Vrtala, Aron ^f   Wagner, Paul E ^f   Walther, Hansueli ^h   Weingartner, Ernest ^h   Wex, Heike ⁱ   Winkler, Paul M ^f   Carslaw, Kenneth S ^d   Worsnop, Douglas R ^e,p   Baltensperger, Urs ^h   Kulmala, Markku ^e   more..

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^h PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^k California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^l LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

ⁿ NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^o FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^p AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; SULFURIC ACID;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ALBEDO; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; COSMIC RAY; NUCLEATION; STORM SURGE; SULFURIC ACID;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 80052073081     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10343     Document Type: Article

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