Ion‐aerosol‐cloud processes in the lower atmosphere

By Richard Harrison, K. Carslaw. 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. T. Mather
2. K. Aplin
3. J. Kirkby
4. M. Rycroft
5. Richard Harrison
6. K. Nicoll
7. Y. Gallet
8. V. Courtillot

In Global and Planetary Change

1. T. Mather
2. J. Kirkby
3. M. Rycroft
4. Richard Harrison
5. K. Nicoll
6. Y. Gallet
7. V. Courtillot
8. A. Genevey

Citations in the corpus

• Atmospheric ion‐induced nucleation of sulfuric acid and water (2004, background): “Ion-induced nucleation (IIN) may explain a possible connection between the flux of galactic cosmic rays (the main source of ions in the background atmosphere) and global cloudiness [Carslaw et al., 2002; Harrison and Carslaw, 2003 ].”
• Electrification of volcanic plumes (2006, background): “From consideration of ion sources and losses (Harrison and Carslaw 2003), the timescale s for the aerosol charge to reach steady-state charge is given by s ¼ 1 bZ ð7Þ where Z is the aerosol number concentration and b is the (radius-dependent) ion– aerosol attachment coefficient (see Sect.”
• Recent advances in global electric circuit coupling between the space environment and the troposphere (2012, background): “The primary ions stabilise through clustering with other polar molecules such as ammonia, water, and organics, and are then known as cluster ions (Harrison and Carslaw, 2003).”
• The atmospheric global electric circuit : An overview (2007, background): “The columnar resistance integrated over the earth’s surface provides the load term in global atmospheric electric circuit, whereas the integrated value over altitude provides a local value, which heavily depends on atmospheric, ion-aerosol interaction (Harrison and Carslaw, 2003).”
• Cosmic Rays and Climate (2005, background): “the global electric current flowing between the ionosphere and Earth’s surface (Tinsley 2000; Harrison and Carslaw 2003).”
• The Global Atmospheric Electrical Circuit and Climate (2004, neutral): “More quantitative discussions of these mechanisms, based on the theory already available, are given in Harrison and Carslaw (2003).”
• Are there connections between the Earth's magnetic field and climate? (2007, background): “The near cloud mechanism relies on the production of ice nuclei in the vicinity of clouds (even if these are not thunderstorm clouds) induced by the perturbation in the global atmospheric electrical circuit due to the ionization of the atmosphere by the GCR flux [47,48,45].”