Quantifying the impact of dust on heterogeneous ice generation in midlevel supercooled stratiform clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Damao ^a   Wang, Zhien ^a,b   Heymsfield, Andrew ^c   Fan, Jiwen ^d   Liu, Dong ^b   Zhao, Ming ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SimCenter Enterprises Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DUST; SUPERCOOLING;

BACKGROUND AEROSOL; CALIPSO; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; CLOUDSAT; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST PARTICLE; ICE GROWTH; ICE NUCLEI; ICE PARTICLES; ICE WATER PATHS; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD PROPERTIES; STRATIFORM CLOUDS;

ICE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CALIPSO; CLOUDSAT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HETEROGENEITY; ICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRATIFORM CLOUD; SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 84867212648     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052831     Document Type: Article

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