Morphology of nitric acid and water ice films

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 434-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon F. Keyser ◽  
Ming-Taun Leu
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1993 ◽  
Vol 97 (29) ◽  
pp. 7779-7785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang T. Chu ◽  
Ming Taun Leu ◽  
Leon F. Keyser

2015 ◽  
Vol 811 (2) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Raut ◽  
E. H. Mitchell ◽  
R. A. Baragiola

2004 ◽  
Vol 231-232 ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
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Igor A. Wojciechowski ◽  
Uchkun Kutliev ◽  
Shixin Sun ◽  
Christopher Szakal ◽  
Nicholas Winograd ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D. James ◽  
James S. A. Brooke ◽  
Thomas P. Mangan ◽  
Thomas F. Whale ◽  
John M. C. Plane ◽  
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Abstract. Heterogeneous nucleation of crystalline nitric acid hydrates in Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) enhances ozone depletion. However, the identity and mode of action of the particles responsible for nucleation remains unknown. It has been suggested that meteoric material may trigger nucleation of nitric acid trihydrate (NAT), but this has never been directly demonstrated in the laboratory. Meteoric material is present in two forms in the stratosphere, smoke which results from the ablation and re-condensation of vapours, and fragments which result from the disruption of meteoroids entering the atmosphere. Here we show that analogues of both materials have a capacity to nucleate nitric acid hydrates. In combination with estimates from a global model of the amount of meteoric smoke and fragments in the polar stratosphere we show that meteoric material probably accounts for NAT observations in early season polar stratospheric clouds in the absence of water ice.


2001 ◽  
Vol 106 (E12) ◽  
pp. 33351-33361 ◽  
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Sabrina La Spisa ◽  
Matthew Waldheim ◽  
Jaime Lintemoot ◽  
Tiffany Thomas ◽  
Janelle Naff ◽  
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