Can aerosols spin down the water cycle in a warmer and moister world?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Liepert, Beate G ^a   Feichter, Johann ^b   Lohmann, Ulrike ^c   Roeckner, Erich ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION;

AEROSOL EFFECTS; CIRCULATION MODELS; SOLAR WARMING; WATER CYCLES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 18544400972     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019060     Document Type: Article

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