Ultrafine sea spray aerosol over the southeastern Pacific: Open-ocean contributions to marine boundary layer CCN

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7263-7278

  Blot, R ^a   Clarke, A D ^a   Freitag, S ^a   Kapustin, V ^a   Howell, S G ^a   Jensen, J B ^b   Shank, L M ^a,c   McNaughton, C S ^a,d   Brekhovskikh, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory   (United States)

^d GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84881239025     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-7263-2013     Document Type: Article

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