Articles | Volume 17, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14433-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14433-2017
Research article
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05 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 05 Dec 2017

Further evidence for CCN aerosol concentrations determining the height of warm rain and ice initiation in convective clouds over the Amazon basin

Ramon Campos Braga, Daniel Rosenfeld, Ralf Weigel, Tina Jurkat, Meinrat O. Andreae, Manfred Wendisch, Ulrich Pöschl, Christiane Voigt, Christoph Mahnke, Stephan Borrmann, Rachel I. Albrecht, Sergej Molleker, Daniel A. Vila, Luiz A. T. Machado, and Lucas Grulich

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