Modeling particle nucleation and growth over northern California during the 2010 CARES campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 12283-12313

  Lupascu, A ^a   Easter, R ^a   Zaveri, R ^a   Shrivastava, M ^a   Pekour, M ^a   Tomlinson, J ^a   Yang, Q ^a   Matsui, H ^b,c   Hodzic, A ^d   Zhang, Q ^e   Fast, J D ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; MODELING; NUCLEATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946718168     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-12283-2015     Document Type: Article

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