New particle formation and growth in biomass burning plumes: An important source of cloud condensation nuclei

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Hennigan, Christopher J ^a   Westervelt, Daniel M ^a   Riipinen, Ilona ^b   Engelhart, Gabriella J ^a   Lee, Taehyoung ^c   Collett, Jeffrey L ^c   Pandis, Spyros N ^a,d   Adams, Peter J ^a   Robinson, Allen L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS;

BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; FIRE PLUME; GLOBAL MODELS; MEDIAN VALUE; MODEL PREDICTION; NEW PARTICLE FORMATION; NORTH AMERICAN; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

BIOMASS;

BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOOXIDATION; PLUME; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84861123804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL050930     Document Type: Article

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