The relationship between aerosol and cloud drop number concentrations in a global aerosol microphysics model

Empirical relationships that link cloud droplet number (CDN) to aerosol number or mass are commonly used to calculate global fields of CDN for climate forcing assessments. In this work we use a sectional global model of sulfate and sea-salt aerosol coupled to a mechanistic aerosol activation scheme...

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Main Authors: K. J. Pringle, K. S. Carslaw, D. V. Spracklen, G. M. Mann, M. P. Chipperfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-06-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/4131/2009/acp-9-4131-2009.pdf