Microphysical effects determine macrophysical response for aerosol impacts on deep convective clouds

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

Volumn 110, Issue 48, 2013, Pages

  Fan, Jiwen ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^a   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^b   Chen, Qian ^a,c   Li, Zhanqing ^d,e   Zhang, Jinqiang ^f   Yan, Hongru ^e,g  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Maryland   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^g LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol indirect forcing; Aerosol cloud interactions

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLOUD; COOLING; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUD; FREEZING; HEAT TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TROPICS; WARMING;

AEROSOL INDIRECT FORCING; AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTIONS;

AEROSOLS; AIR MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STEAM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84888359589     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316830110     Document Type: Article

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