Can chemical effects on cloud droplet number rival the first indirect effect?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 29-1-29-4

  Nenes, Athanasios ^a   Charlson, Robert J ^b   Facchini, M Cristina ^c   Kulmala, Markku ^d   Laaksonen, Ari ^e   Seinfeld, John H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

CHEMICAL EFFECTS; ACCOMMODATION COEFFICIENTS; AMBIENT AEROSOLS; CLOUD DROPLET ACTIVATION; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC SUBSTANCES; SOLUBLE SUBSTANCES;

CLOUDS; DROPS;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS;

EID: 85081147382     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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