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Research article
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20 Jun 2017
Research article |
| 20 Jun 2017
Comparing parameterized versus measured microphysical properties of tropical convective cloud bases during the ACRIDICON–CHUVA campaign
Ramon Campos Braga
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Cachoeira Paulista, Brasil
Daniel Rosenfeld
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Ralf Weigel
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Tina Jurkat
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Meinrat O. Andreae
Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Manfred Wendisch
Leipziger Institut für Meteorologie (LIM), Universität Leipzig, Stephanstr. 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Mira L. Pöhlker
Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Thomas Klimach
Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl
Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Christopher Pöhlker
Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Christiane Voigt
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christoph Mahnke
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Stephan Borrmann
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Rachel I. Albrecht
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Sergej Molleker
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI), Particle Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany
Daniel A. Vila
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Cachoeira Paulista, Brasil
Luiz A. T. Machado
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Cachoeira Paulista, Brasil
Paulo Artaxo
Instituto de Física (IF), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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