How thermodynamic environments control stratocumulus microphysics and interactions with aerosols

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Andersen, Hendrik ^a   Cermak, Jan ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

aerosol cloud interactions; ERA Interim; MODIS; saturation effects; stratocumulus microphysics; thermodynamic environments

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ERA INTERIMS; MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; SATURATION EFFECTS;

LOADING;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; SATELLITE DATA; SATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84923787514     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024004     Document Type: Article

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