Balloon-borne match measurements of midlatitude cirrus clouds

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7341-7365

  Cirisan, A ^a   Luo, B P ^a   Engel, I ^a,d   Wienhold, F G ^a   Sprenger, M ^a   Krieger, U K ^a   Weers, U ^a   Romanens, G ^b   Levrat, G ^b   Jeannet, P ^b   Ruffieux, D ^b   Philipona, R ^b   Calpini, B ^b   Spichtinger, P ^c   Peter, T ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE CRYSTAL; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE;

PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84904578010     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-7341-2014     Document Type: Article

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