Computational assessment of a proposed technique for global warming mitigation via albedo-enhancement of marine stratocumulus clouds

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 328-336

  Bower, Keith ^a   Choularton, Tom ^a   Latham, John ^a,b   Sahraei, Jalil ^a   Salter, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albedo; CCN; Climate; Modification

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 33749147663     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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