Climate response and radiative forcing from mineral aerosols during the last glacial maximum, pre-industrial, current and doubled-carbon dioxide climates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Mahowald, Natalie M ^a,b   Yoshioka, Masaru ^a,b   Collins, William D ^a   Conley, Andrew J ^a   Fillmore, David W ^a   Coleman, Danielle B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DUST; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MINERAL AEROSOL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AEROSOL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE FORCING; DUST; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIATIVE FORCING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33845641700     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026126     Document Type: Article

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