Quantification of dust-forced heating of the lower troposphere

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6700, 1998, Pages 367-370

  Alpert, P ^a   Kaufman, Y J ^b   Shay El, Y ^a   Tanre, D ^c   Da Silva, A ^b   Schubert, S ^b   Joseph, J H ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DUST; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DUST; HEATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

NASA;

EID: 0032563891     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26456     Document Type: Article

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