Potential climatic effects of meteoric smoke in the Earth's paleo-atmosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Saunders, Russell W ^a   Forster, Piers M ^a   Plane, John M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SMOKE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; GLACIATION; METEORIC SMOKE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

GLACIATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; METEOR; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 35948945700     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029648     Document Type: Article

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