Observations of the boundary layer, cloud, and aerosol variability in the southeast Pacific near-coastal marine stratocumulus during VOCALS-REx

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 9943-9959

  Zheng, X ^a   Albrecht, B ^a   Jonsson, H H ^b   Khelif, D ^c   Feingold, G ^d   Minnis, P ^e   Ayers, K ^e   Chuang, P ^f   Donaher, S ^a   Rossiter, D ^f   Ghate, V ^g   Ruiz Plancarte, J ^c   Sun Mack, S ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD WATER; COASTAL WATER; ENTRAINMENT; GOES; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIXING RATIO; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; STRATOCUMULUS; SUPERSATURATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

CHILE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 80053233173     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-9943-2011     Document Type: Article

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