Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston. Part II: Dependence of aerosol effects on instability

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 167-174

  Carrio G G ^a   Cotton, W R ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

CCN; Convection; Urban growth; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL SOURCE; CCN; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD DROPLETS; CONDENSED WATER; CONVECTIVE CELL; DATA SETS; HOUSTON; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; LAND COVER; MULTI-GRID; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY; SUB-GRIDS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; URBAN AEROSOLS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POLLUTIONS; WATER SPECIES;

CELLS; COALESCENCE; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION; ICE; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; LAND COVER; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POLLUTION;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052861673     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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