Design and sampling characteristics of a new airborne aerosol inlet for aerosol measurements in clouds

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1123-1135

  Craig, Lucas ^a   Schanot, Allen ^b   Moharreri, Arash ^a   Rogers, David C ^b   Dhaniyala, Suresh ^a  

^a Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MEASUREMENT; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AIRBORNE SAMPLING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; INLET PERFORMANCE; PARTICLE GENERATION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLING CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; AIRBORNE SENSING; CLOUD COVER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROPLET; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84880710562     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00168.1     Document Type: Article

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