Aerosols-cloud microphysics-thermodynamics-turbulence: Evaluating supersaturation in a marine stratocumulus cloud

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2459-2468

  Ditas, F ^a   Shaw, R A ^a,b   Siebert, H ^a   Simmel, M ^a   Wehner, B ^a   Wiedensohler, A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SENSING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATOCUMULUS; SUPERSATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84857955193     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-2459-2012     Document Type: Article

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