Articles | Volume 12, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-12155-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-12155-2012
Research article
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21 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 21 Dec 2012

Numerical evidence for cloud droplet nucleation at the cloud-environment interface

J. Sun, H. Leighton, M. K. Yau, and P. Ariya

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