Bacterial ice nuclei impact cloud lifetime and radiative properties and reduce atmospheric heat loss in the BRAMS simulation model

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Costa, Tassio S ^a   Gonçalves, Fábio L T ^a   Yamasoe, Marcia A ^a   Martins, Jorge A ^b   Morris, Cindy E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c INRA   (France)

Author keywords

biological ice nuclei; cloud radiative properties; numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BUDGET CONTROL; HEAT RADIATION; HEATING RATE; ICE; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODELS;

BACTERIAL SPECIES; CLOUD RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; ICE NUCLEI; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; SIMULATION MODEL;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

BRAZIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 84928979022     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084020     Document Type: Article

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