Ice nucleation and dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2041-2046

  Jensen, Eric J ^a   Diskin, Glenn ^b   Lawson, R Paul ^c   Lance, Sara ^c   Bui, T Paul ^a   Hlavka, Dennis ^d   McGill, Matthew ^e   Pfister, Leonhard ^a   Toon, Owen B ^f   Gaog, Rushan ^g  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SPEC INC   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATTREX; Ice nuclei

Indexed keywords

ICE;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COLD; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER; VAPOR;

EID: 84873444945     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217104110     Document Type: Article

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