Articles | Volume 13, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10385-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10385-2013
Research article
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25 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 25 Oct 2013

Reduced efficacy of marine cloud brightening geoengineering due to in-plume aerosol coagulation: parameterization and global implications

G. S. Stuart, R. G. Stevens, A.-I. Partanen, A. K. L. Jenkins, H. Korhonen, P. M. Forster, D. V. Spracklen, and J. R. Pierce

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