Climate impact of black carbon emitted from energy consumption in the world's regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Reddy, M Shekar ^a,b   Boucher, Olivier ^a,b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON BLACK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

BLACK CARBON; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; DEPOSITION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34547991101     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028904     Document Type: Article

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