A physically-based treatment of elemental carbon optics: Implications for global direct forcing of aerosols

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-220

  Jacobson, Mark Z ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CARBON; MIXING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 0034353513     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010968     Document Type: Article

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