Impacts of the Manaus pollution plume on the microphysical properties of Amazonian warm-phase clouds in the wet season

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7029-7041

  Cecchini, Micael A ^a   Machado, Luiz A T ^a   Comstock, Jennifer M ^b   Mei, Fan ^b   Wang, Jian ^c   Fan, Jiwen ^b   Tomlinson, Jason M ^b   Schmid, Beat ^b   Albrecht, Rachel ^e   Martin, Scot T ^d   Artaxo, Paulo ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CUMULUS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84974533848     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-7029-2016     Document Type: Article

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