Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7153, 2007, Pages 575-578

  Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ^a   Ramana, Muvva V ^a   Roberts, Gregory ^a   Kim, Dohyeong ^a   Corrigan, Craig ^a   Chung, Chul ^a   Winker, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEATING; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLOUD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34547630493     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06019     Document Type: Article

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