A Case Study of Ship Track Formation in a Polluted Marine Boundary Layer
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Authors
Noone, Kevin J.
Johnson, Doug W.
Taylor, Jonathan P.
Ferek, Ronald J.
Garrett, Tim
Hobbs, Peter V.
Durkee, Philip A.
Nielsen, Kurt
Öström, Elisabeth
O'Dowd, Colin
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2000
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A case study of the effects of ship emissions on the microphysical, radiative, and chemical properties of
polluted marine boundary layer clouds is presented. Two ship tracks are discussed in detail. In situ measurements
of cloud drop size distributions, liquid water content, and cloud radiative properties, as well as aerosol size
distributions (outside-cloud, interstitial, and cloud droplet residual particles) and aerosol chemistry, are presented.
These are related to remotely sensed measurements of cloud radiative properties.
The authors examine the processes behind ship track formation in a polluted marine boundary layer as an
example of the effects of anthropogenic particulate pollution on the albedo of marine stratiform clouds.
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Meteorology
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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17 p.
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Noone, Kevin J., et al. "A case study of ship track formation in a polluted marine boundary layer." Journal of the atmospheric sciences 57.16 (2000): 2748-2764.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.