Revisiting ice nucleation from precipitation samples

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8758-8766

  Petters, M D ^a   Wright, T P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol cloud climate interaction; biological ice nuclei; heterogeneous ice nucleation; mixed phase clouds; precipitation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL CLOUDS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; ICE NUCLEATION; ICE NUCLEI; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES;

ICE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLOUD WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CUMULUS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84946605459     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065733     Document Type: Article

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