Spaceborne lidar observations of the ice-nucleating potential of dust, polluted dust, and smoke aerosols in mixed-phase clouds

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6653-6665

  Tan, Ivy ^a   Storelvmo, Trude ^a   Choi, Yong Sang ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; DUST; ICE; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; POLLUTION; SMOKE; SUPERCOOLING; TEMPERATURE;

CALIOP; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CORRELATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CORRELATION; DUST; ICE CRYSTAL; LIDAR; NUCLEATION; SMOKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCOOLING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84903289260     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021333     Document Type: Article

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