Regime-based analysis of aerosol-cloud interactions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Gryspeerdt, Edward ^a   Stier, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CO-LOCATED; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LIQUID CLOUD; MEAN SENSITIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; GLOBAL CHANGE; OPTICAL DEPTH; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 84868623630     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053221     Document Type: Article

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