The deposition ice nucleation and immersion freezing potential of amorphous secondary organic aerosol: Pathways for ice and mixed-phase cloud formation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Bingbing ^a,b   Lambe, Andrew T ^c,d   Massoli, Paola ^d   Onasch, Timothy B ^c,d   Davidovits, Paul ^c   Worsnop, Douglas R ^d   Knopf, Daniel A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; FREE RADICALS; FREEZING; GLASS TRANSITION; NAPHTHALENE; NUCLEATION; OXIDATION; VAPORS;

DEPOSITION MODES; ICE CLOUDS; ICE NUCLEATION; IMMERSION FREEZING; LOW TEMPERATURES; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; OH RADICAL; ONSET CONDITION; OXIDATION LEVEL; PARTICLE PHASE; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; TWO PARAMETER; WATER UPTAKE;

ICE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FREEZING; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NAPHTHALENE; NUCLEATION; OXIDATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; VISCOSITY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84865746763     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018063     Document Type: Article

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