Parcel model simulations of aerosol
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Parcel model simulations of aerosol – warm phase cloud microphysics interactions over the Amazon A. A. Costa and S. Sherwood Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hı́dricos, Fortaleza, Brazil Received: 19 October 2004 – Accepted: 9 December 2004 – Published: 31 January 2005 Correspondence to: A. A. Costa ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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