Absorbing aerosols at high relative humidity: Linking hygroscopic growth to optical properties

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5511-5521

  Michel Flores, J ^a,b,c   Bar Or, R Z ^c   Bluvshtein, N ^c   Abo Riziq, A ^c   Kostinski, A ^d   Borrmann, S ^a,b   Koren, I ^c,c   Rudich, Y ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; HYGROSCOPICITY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE FORCING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 84863213727     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-5511-2012     Document Type: Article

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