Marginal direct climate forcing by atmospheric aerosols

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 14-15, 1998, Pages 2531-2542

  West, J Jason ^a   Pilinis, Christodoulos ^b   Nenes, Athanasios ^c   Pandis, Spyros N ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols and climate; Inorganic aerosol chemistry; Marginal direct forcing; Radiative forcing; Sulfate

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER;

MARGINAL DIRECT FORCING; MIE THEORY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIZE RESOLVED AEROSOL BOX MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE FORCING; SULFATE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032145659     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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