Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2345-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2345-2014
Model description paper
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14 Oct 2014
Model description paper |  | 14 Oct 2014

Droplet activation parameterization: the population-splitting concept revisited

R. Morales Betancourt and A. Nenes

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