Effect of coarse marine aerosols on stratocumulus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Lehahn, Yoav ^a,b   Koren, Ilan ^b   Altaratz, Orit ^b   Kostinski, Alexander B ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROPS; NASA; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL PARTICLES; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUD SIMULATION; COARSE AEROSOLS; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; MARINE AEROSOLS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PRECIPITATION FORMATION; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE WINDS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; AMSR-E; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DROPLET; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATOCUMULUS; SURFACE WIND; WIND POWER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 80055063783     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048504     Document Type: Article

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