A climatologically significant aerosol longwave indirect effect in the Arctic

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7075, 2006, Pages 453-456

  Lubin, Dan ^a   Vogelmann, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RADIOMETRY; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFLUXES; LONGWAVE ENHANCEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; SEA ICE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 31444450340     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04449     Document Type: Article

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