Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1535-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1535-2014
Development and technical paper
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24 Jul 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 24 Jul 2014

An investigation into the performance of four cloud droplet activation parameterisations

E. Simpson, P. Connolly, and G. McFiggans

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