Observation of playa salts as nuclei in orographic wave clouds
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Observation of Playa Salts as Nuclei in Orographic Wave Clouds
[1] During the Ice in Clouds Experiment‐Layer Clouds (ICE‐L), dry lakebed, or playa, salts from the Great Basin region of the United States were observed as cloud nuclei in orographic wave clouds over Wyoming. Using a counterflow virtual impactor in series with a single‐particle mass spectrometer, sodium‐potassium‐magnesium‐calcium‐chloride salts were identified as residues of cloud droplets. I...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2009jd013606