BINARY: An optical freezing array for assessing temperature and time dependence of heterogeneous ice nucleation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 689-703

  Budke, C ^a   Koop, T ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COOLING; DROPLET; FREEZING; ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL METHOD; WATER VAPOR;

BIELEFELD; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 84922895364     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-689-2015     Document Type: Article

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