Glaciation temperatures of convective clouds ingesting desert dust, air pollution and smoke from forest fires

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Yu, Xing ^b   Liu, Guihua ^b   Xu, Xiaohong ^b   Zhu, Yannian ^b   Yue, Zhiguo ^b   Dai, Jin ^b   Dong, Zipeng ^b   Dong, Yan ^b   Peng, Yan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Meteorological Institute of Shaanxi Province ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COALESCENCE; DEFORESTATION; DROPS; DUST; FIRES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; POLLUTION; RAIN; SMOKE;

AEROSOL TYPES; CLOUD DROP SIZE; CLOUD DROPS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DESERT DUST; DROP COALESCENCE; EAST ASIA; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; FOREST FIRES; ICE FORMING; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SIBERIA; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DESERT; DUST; FOREST FIRE; GLACIATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SMOKE; SUSPENDED LOAD;

AEROSOLS; AGGLOMERATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERE; DEFORESTATION; DROPS; DUST; FOREST FIRES; ICE; RAIN; SMOKE;

SIBERIA;

EID: 80655144799     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049423     Document Type: Article

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