Response of the climatic temperature to dust forcing, inferred from total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) aerosol index and the NASA assimilation model

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 3-14

  Alpert, P ^a   Herman, J ^b   Kaufman, Y J ^b   Carmona, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate forcing; Data assimilation; Dust; Dust aerosols; Model errors; TOMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002984254     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8095(99)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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