Influence of convection and aerosol pollution on ice cloud particle effective radius
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Influence of convection and aerosol pollution on ice cloud particle effective radius
Satellite observations show that ice cloud effective radius (re) increases with ice water content (IWC) but decreases with aerosol optical thickness (AOT). Using leastsquares fitting to the observed data, we obtain an analytical formula to describe the variations of re with IWC and AOT for several regions with distinct characteristics of re-IWCAOT relationships. As IWC directly relates to conve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1680-7324
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-457-2011