Direct thermal radiative forcing of tropospheric aerosol in the Arctic measured by ground based infrared spectrometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Ritter, Christoph ^a   Notholt, Justus ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^c   Rathke, Carsten ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMAL EMISSION SPECTRA; THERMAL RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL;

METEOROLOGY;

AEROSOL; RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 31544453045     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024331     Document Type: Article

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