Satellite retrieval of cloud condensation nuclei concentrations by using clouds as CCN chambers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5828-5834

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Zheng, Youtong ^b,c,d   Hashimshoni, Eyal ^a   Pöhlker, Mira L ^e   Jefferson, Anne ^f   Pöhlker, Christopher ^e   Yu, Xing ^g   Zhu, Yannian ^d,g   Liu, Guihua ^g   Yue, Zhiguo ^g   Fischman, Baruch ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^b,c,d   Giguzin, David ^a   Goren, Tom ^a   Artaxo, Paulo ^h   Barbosa, Henrique M J ^h   Pöschl, Ulrich ^e   Andreae, Meinrat O ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Meteorological Institute of Shaanxi Province   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ccn concentrations; Cloud aerosol interactions; Convective clouds; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADIABATICITY; AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE; CLOUD; CLOUD CONDENSABASE NUCLEI; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMIDITY; OKLAHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84969785574     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514044113     Document Type: Article

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