Acridicon-chuva campaign: Studying tropical deep convective clouds and precipitation over amazonia using the New German research aircraft HALO

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1885-1908

  Wendisch, Manfred ^a   Poschl, Ulrich ^b   Andreae, Meinrat O ^c   MacHado, Luiz A T ^c   Albrecht, Rachel ^d   Schlager, Hans ^e   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^f   Martin, Scot T ^f   Abdelmonem, Ahmed ^g   Afchine, Armin ^h   Araujo, Alessandro C ^d   Artaxo, Paulo ^a   Aufmhoff, Heinfried ^e   Barbosa, Henrique M J ^a   Borrmann, Stephan ^a   Braga, Ramon ^c   Buchholz, Bernhard ^b   Cecchini, Micael Amore ^c   Costa, Anja ⁱ   Curtius, Joachim ^j   Dollner, Maximilian ^k   Dorf, Marcel ^l   Dreiling, Volker ^e   Ebert, Volker ^e   Ehrlich, Andre ^l   Ewald, Florian ^m   Fisch, Gilberto ⁿ   Fix, Andreas ^e   Frank, Fabian ^o   Futterer, Daniel ^e   Heckl, Christopher ^e   Heidelberg, Fabian ^e   Huneke, Tilman ^p   Jakel, Evelyn ⁱ   Jarvinen, Emma ^b   Jurkat, Tina ^e   Kanter, Sandra ^p   Kastner, Udo ^c   Kenntner, Mareike ^e   Kesselmeier, Jurgen ^b   Klimach, Thomas ^q   Knecht, Matthias ^e   Kohl, Rebecca ⁱ   Kolling, Tobias ^b   Kramer, Martina ^b   Kruger, Mira ^b   Krisna, Trismono Candra ^a   Lavric, Jost V ^c   Longo, Karla ^c   Mahnke, Christoph ^b   Manzi, Antonio O ^b   Mayer, Bernhard ^c   Mertes, Stephan ^d   Minikin, Andreas ^b   Molleker, Sergej ^b   Munch, Steffen ^c   Nillius, Bjorn ^c   Pfeilsticker, Klaus ^c   Pohlker, Christopher ^c   Roiger, Anke ^e   Rose, Diana ^b   Rosenow, Dagmar ^b   Sauer, Daniel ^b   Schnaiter, Martin ^c   Schneider, Johannes ^b   Schulz, Christiane ^b   De Souza, Rodrigo A F ^b   Spanu, Antonio ^b   Stock, Paul ^e   Vila, Daniel ^c   Voigt, Christiane ^c   Walser, Adrian ^d   Walter, David ^f   Weigel, Ralf ^d   Weinzierl, Bernadett ^d   Werner, Frank ^a   Yamasoe, Marcia A ^d   Ziereis, Helmut ^e   Zinner, Tobias ^b   Zoger, Martin ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^h EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^k GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^m INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^o LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^p MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

AMAZONIA; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; CLOUD LIFE CYCLE; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION FORMATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84999274125     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00255.1     Document Type: Article

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