Clouds, aerosols, and precipitation in the marine boundary layer: An arm mobile facility deployment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 419-439

  Wood, Robert ^a   Wyant, Matthew ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Rémillard, Jasmine ^b   Kollias, Pavlos ^c   Fletcher, Jennifer ^a   Stemmler, Jayson ^a   De Szoeke, Simone ^d   Yuter, Sandra ^e   Miller, Matthew ^e   Mechem, David ^f   Tselioudis, George ^b   Chiu, J Christine ^g   Mann, Julian A L ^g   O'Connor, Ewan J ^g,h   Hogan, Robin J ^g   Dong, Xiquan ⁱ   Miller, Mark ^j   Ghate, Virendra ^k   Jefferson, Anne ^l   Min, Qilong ^m   Minnis, Patrick ⁿ   Palikonda, Rabindra ^o   Albrecht, Bruce ^p   Luke, Ed ^q   Hannay, Cecile ^r   Lin, Yanluan ^s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^h FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^j RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^m STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

ⁿ NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^o SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^q BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^r NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^s TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; SAMPLING;

AEROSOL PROPERTIES; EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; HIGH QUALITY DATA; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; STATISTICAL RELIABILITY; WEATHER AND CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84919704727     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00180.1     Document Type: Article

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