Properties of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in the trade wind marine boundary layer of the western North Atlantic

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2675-2688

  Kristensen, Thomas B ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a   Kandler, Konrad ^b   Benker, Nathalie ^b   Hartmann, Markus ^b   Prospero, Joseph M ^c   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^a   Stratmann, Frank ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRADE WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARBADOS;

EID: 84960157126     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-2675-2016     Document Type: Article

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