Different contact angle distributions for heterogeneous ice nucleation in the community atmospheric model version 5

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 10411-10430

  Wang, Y ^a,b,c   Liu, X ^b   Hoose, C ^d   Wang, B ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BLACK CARBON; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DUST; ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84907936517     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-10411-2014     Document Type: Article

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