Articles | Volume 12, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8611-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-8611-2012
Research article
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25 Sep 2012
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2012

Glassy aerosols with a range of compositions nucleate ice heterogeneously at cirrus temperatures

T. W. Wilson, B. J. Murray, R. Wagner, O. Möhler, H. Saathoff, M. Schnaiter, J. Skrotzki, H. C. Price, T. L. Malkin, S. Dobbie, and S. M. R. K. Al-Jumur

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