Aerosol processing and CCN formation of an intense Saharan dust plume during the EUCAARI 2008 campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3497-3516

  Begue N ^a   Tulet, P ^a   Pelon, J ^b   Aouizerats, B ^c   Berger, A ^d   Schwarzenboeck, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CALIPSO; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; DUST; SUPERSATURATION;

BELGIUM; NETHERLANDS; SAHARA;

EID: 84926149148     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-3497-2015     Document Type: Article

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