In-situ aircraft observations of ice concentrations within clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula and Larsen Ice Shelf

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 11275-11294

  Grosvenor, D P ^a,c   Choularton, T W ^a   Lachlan Cope, T ^b   Gallagher, M W ^a   Crosier, J ^a   Bower, K N ^a   Ladkin, R S ^b   Dorsey, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; POLAR REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; LARSEN ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84870535337     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-11275-2012     Document Type: Article

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