Frost flower aerosol effects on Arctic wintertime longwave cloud radiative forcing

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13,282-13,291

  Xu, Li ^a   Russell, Lynn M ^a   Somerville, Richard C J ^a   Quinn, Patricia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; frost flowers; longwave cloud radiative forcing; sea salt aerosol

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DROPS; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; WIND;

ARCTIC; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; FROST FLOWERS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SEA SALT AEROSOL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EMISSIVITY; FROST; ICE CRYSTAL; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICULATE FLUX; SEA ICE; SEA SALT; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARROW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891276798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020554     Document Type: Article

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