Aerosol impacts on California winter clouds and precipitation during calwater 2011: Local pollution versus long-range transported dust

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-101

  Fan, J ^a   Leung, L R ^a   Demott, P J ^b   Comstock, J M ^a   Singh, B ^a   Rosenfeld, D ^c   Tomlinson, J M ^a   White, A ^d   Prather, K A ^e   Minnis, P ^f   Ayers, J K ^g   Min, Q ^h  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DUST; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; SAHARA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891691818     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-81-2014     Document Type: Article

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