A simplified treatment of surfactant effects on cloud drop activation
Dissolved surface active species, or surfactants, have a tendency to partition to solution surface and thereby decrease solution surface tension. Activating cloud droplets have large surface-to-volume ratios, and the amount of surfactant molecules in them is limited. Therefore, unlike with macroscop...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-02-01
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| Series: | Geoscientific Model Development |
| Online Access: | http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/4/107/2011/gmd-4-107-2011.pdf |