Sub-micrometre particulate matter is primarily in liquid form over Amazon rainforest

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-37

  Bateman, Adam P ^a   Gong, Zhaoheng ^a   Liu, Pengfei ^a   Sato, Bruno ^b   Cirino, Glauber ^c   Zhang, Yue ^a   Artaxo, Paulo ^d   Bertram, Allan K ^e   Manzi, Antonio O ^c   Rizzo, Luciana V ^f   Souza, Rodrigo A F ^g   Zaveri, Rahul A ^h   Martin, Scot T ^a,i  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g Amazonas State University   (Brazil)

^h PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; BOREAL FOREST; CLOUD COVER; ENERGY BALANCE; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AMAZONIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84983130825     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2599     Document Type: Article

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