Ice nucleation efficiency of clay minerals in the immersion mode

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5859-5878

  Pinti, V ^a   Marcolli, C ^a   Zobrist, B ^a   Hoyle, C R ^a,b   Peter, T ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLAY MINERAL; COLORIMETRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; EMULSION; FREEZING; KAOLINITE; MONTMORILLONITE; NUCLEATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGERIA; HOGGAR;

EID: 84863888212     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-5859-2012     Document Type: Article

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