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Pueschel et al. 2000
Pueschel, R.F., Verma, S., Rohatschek, H., Ferry, G.V., Boiadjieva, N., Howard, S.D. and Strawa, A.W. (2000). Vertical transport of anthropogenic soot aerosol into the middle atmosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research 105: doi: 10.1029/1999JD900505. issn: 0148-0227.

Gravito-photophoresis, a sunlight-induced force acting on particles which are geometrically asymmetric and which have uneven surface distribution of thermal accommodation coefficients, explains vertical transport of fractal soot aerosol emitted by aircraft in conventional flight corridors (10--12 km altitude) into the mesosphere (>80 km altitude). While direct optical effects of this aerosol appear nonsignificant, it is conceivable that they play a role in mesospheric physics by providing nuclei for polar mesospheric cloud formation and by affecting the ionization of the mesosphere to contribute to polar mesospheric summer echoes. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Constituent sources and sinks, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Middle atmosphere—constituent transport and chemistry, Global Change, Impact phenomena, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud physics and chemistry
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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