Eastern pacific emitted aerosol cloud experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 709-729

  Russell, Lynn M ^a   Sorooshian, Armin ^b   Seinfeld, John H ^c   Albrecht, Bruce A ^d   Nenes, Athanasios ^e   Ahlm, Lars ^a   Chen, Yi Chun ^c   Coggon, Matthew ^c   Craven, Jill S ^c   Flagan, Richard C ^c   Frossard, Amanda A ^a   Jonsson, Haflidi ^g   Jung, Eunsil ^d   Lin, Jack J ^f   Metcalf, Andrew R ^c,j   Modini, Robin ^a   Mülmenstädt, Johannes ^a   Roberts, Greg C ^a,h   Shingler, Taylor ^b   Song, Siwon ^d   Wang, Zhen ^b   Wonaschütz, Anna ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aerosol Studies   (United States)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; EASTERN PACIFIC; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; MODELING STUDIES; PARTICLE NUMBERS; RESEARCH VESSELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; SHIPS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84878693699     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00015.1     Document Type: Article

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