Climate response to soil dust aerosols

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3247-3267

  Miller, R L ^a   Tegen, I ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); MIXED LAYER OCEAN MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DUST; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 0032416288     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3247:CRTSDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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