Open AccessAtmospheric Particles Aren’t the Same Cloud Seeds They Once Were
Author(s) -
Emily Underwood
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo084233
Subject(s) - trace gas , aerosol , cloud computing , trace (psycholinguistics) , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , meteorology , astrobiology , physics , computer science , operating system , linguistics , philosophy
Still, more than half of the seeds required for cloud droplets to form in both the present-day and preindustrial atmospheres are made by trace gases that condense to form minute aerosol particles.